#Letters Quotes

“Venerable are letters, infinitely brave, forlorn, and lost. Life would split asunder without them. 'Come to tea, come to dinner, what's the truth of the story? have you heard the news? life in the capital is wonderful; the Russian dancers....' These are our stays and props. These lace our days together and make of life a perfect globe.”

“You have a touch in letter writing that is beyond me. Something unexpected, like coming round a corner in a rose garden and finding it still daylight.”

“As I grow old I hate the writing of letters more and more, and like getting them better and better.”

“The best letters of our time are precisely those that can never be published.”

“There was a day when I liked writing letters -- it has gone. Unfortunately the passion for getting them remains.”

“Venerable are letters, infinitely brave, forlorn, and lost.”

“Life would split apart without letters.”

“A person who can write a long letter with ease, cannot write ill.”

“Women are the only correspondents to be depended on.”

“And if I had not a letter to write myself, I might sit by you and admire the evenness of your writing, as another young lady once did. But I have an aunt too, who must not be longer neglected.”

“He was carrying a suitcase with clothing in order to stay and another just like it with almost two thousand letters that she had written him. They were arranged by date in bundles ties with colored ribbons, and they were all unopened.”