LETTER

LETTER

Letter-writing : that most delightful way of wasting time.
A short letter to a distant friend is an insult like that of a slight bow on cursory salutation---a proof of unwillingness to do much, even where there is a necessity of doing something.
I have received no more than one or two letters in my life that were worth the postage.
The best time to frame an answer to the letters of a friend is the moment you receive them; then the warmth of friendship and the intelligence received most forcibly cooperate.
Not of the letter, but of the spirit, for the letter killeth, but the spirit giventh life.
It is by the benefit of letters that absent friends, are in a manner brought together.
Letters are those winged messengers that can fly from east to west on embassies of love.
To write a good LOVE-LETTER you ought to begin without knowing what you mean to say, and to finish without knowing what you have written