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Letter writing is the only device for combining solitude with good company.

Sir, more than kisses, letters mingle souls. For, thus friends absent speak.

Letters are useful as a means of expressing the ideal self. . . . In letters we can reform without practice, beg without humiliation, snip and shape embarrassing experiences to the measure of our own desires. . . .

Letters are among the most significant memorial a person can leave behind them.

The art of art, the glory of expression and the sunshine of the light of letters, is simplicity.

Never write a letter if you can help it, and never destroy one!

Letters are expectation packaged in an envelope.

If you are in doubt whether to write a letter or not, don't. And the advice applies to many doubts in life besides that of letter writing.

Chain letters are the postal equivalent of intestinal flu: you get it and pass it along to your friends.

When a man sends you an impudent letter, sit right down and give it back to him with interest ten times compounded, and then throw both letters in the wastebasket.

There are certain people whom one feels almost inclined to urge to hurry up and die so that their letters can be published.

Correspondences are like small clothes before the invention of suspenders; it is impossible to keep them up.

I have received no more than one or two letters in my life that were worth the postage.