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Jane Austen (top)
The post office has a great charm at one point of our lives. When you have lived to my age, you will begin to think letters are never worth going through the rain for.
- Jane Austen


Unknown Author (top)
What a wonderful thing is the mail, capable of conveying across continents a warm human hand-clasp.
- Unknown Author


Francis Bacon (top)
When he wrote a letter, he would put that which was most material in the postscript, as if it had been a by-matter.
- Francis Bacon


Jacques Barzun (top)
It seems a long time since the morning mail could be called correspondence.
- Jacques Barzun


Lord Byron (top)
Letter writing is the only device for combining solitude with good company.
- Lord Byron
One of the pleasures of reading old letters is the knowledge that they need no answer.
- Lord Byron


Emily Dickinson (top)
A letter always seemed to me like immortality because it is the mind alone without corporeal friend.
- Emily Dickinson


John Donne (top)
Sir, more than kisses, letters mingle souls.
- John Donne


Elizabeth Drew (top)
It takes two to write a letter as much as it takes two to make a quarrel.
- Elizabeth Drew


Sigmund Freud (top)
I consider it a good rule for letter-writing to leave unmentioned what the recipient already knows, and instead tell him something new.
- Sigmund Freud


Douglas Jerrold (top)
A strange volume of real life in the daily packet of the postman. Eternal love and instant payment!
- Douglas Jerrold


Lady Bird Johnson (top)
Then there's the joy of getting your desk clean, and knowing that all your letters are answered, and you can see the wood on it again.
- Lady Bird Johnson


Samuel Johnson (top)
In a man's letters his soul lies naked.
- Samuel Johnson


D.H. Lawrence (top)
I hold that the parentheses are by far the most important parts of a non-business letter.
- D.H. Lawrence


Mignon McLaughlin (top)
If you must reread old love letters, better pick a room without mirrors.
- Mignon McLaughlin


Chinese Proverb (top)
Never write a letter while you are angry.
- Chinese Proverb


Richard Steele (top)
A woman seldom writes her Mind, but in her Postscript.
- Richard Steele


Phyllis Theroux (top)
To send a letter is a good way to go somewhere without moving anything but your heart.
- Phyllis Theroux


Henry David Thoreau (top)
I have received no more than one or two letters in my life that were worth the postage.
- Henry David Thoreau