Inspirational Quotations

Inspirational Quotations on Letters

Let your letter be written as accurately as you are able—I mean as to language, grammar, and stops; but as to the matter of it the less trouble you give yourself the better it will be. Letters should be easy and natural, and convey to the persons to whom we send just what we should say if we were with them.
Earl of Chesterfield (1694–1773) English Statesman, Man of Letters

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.
William Shenstone (1714–63) British Poet, Landscape Gardener

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 (1856–1939) Austrian Psychiatrist, Psychoanalytic

I have received no more than one or two letters in my life that were worth the postage.
Henry David Thoreau (1817–62) American Philosopher

We lay aside letters never to read them again, and at last we destroy them out of discretion, and so disappears the most beautiful, the most immediate breath of life, irrecoverable for ourselves and for others.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749–1832) German Poet

A good face they say, is a letter of recommendation. O Nature, Nature, why art thou so dishonest, as ever to send men with these false recommendations into the World!
Henry Fielding (1707–54) English Novelist, Dramatist

One of the pleasures of reading old letters is the knowledge that they need no answer.
Lord Byron (George Gordon Byron) (1788–1824) English Romantic Poet

A marriage in later years sends a letter to the grave digger.
German Proverb

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 (1912–2007) First Lady of the United States, Conservationist

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 (1561–1626) English Philosopher

In an age like ours, which is not given to letter-writing, we forget what an important part it used to play in people’s lives.
Anatole Broyard (1920–90) American Literary Critic

It is not enough to have a good mind. The main thing is to use it well.
Rene Descartes (1596–1650) French Mathematician, Philosopher

A woman’s best love letters are always written to the man she is betraying.
Lawrence Durrell (1912–90) British Biographer, Poet, Playwright, Novelist

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.
Elbert Hubbard (1856–1915) American Writer, Publisher, Artist, Philosopher

A woman seldom writes her Mind, but in her Postscript.
Richard Steele (1672–1729) Irish Writer, Politician

I hear and behold God in every object, yet understand God not in the least…
I see something of God each hour of the twenty-four, and each moment then,
In the faces of men and women I see God, and in my own face in the glass;
I find letters from God dropped in the street, and everyone is signed by God’s name,
And I leave them where they are, for I know
that whereso’er I go
Others will punctually come forever and ever.
Walt Whitman (1819–92) American Poet, Essayist, Journalist, American, Poet, Essayist, Journalist

It is by the benefit of letters that absent friends are, in a manner, brought together.
Seneca the Younger (Lucius Annaeus Seneca) (c.4 BCE–65 CE) Roman Stoic Philosopher, Statesman, Tragedian

The first love letters are written with the eyes.
French Proverb

The one good thing about not seeing you is that I can write you letters.
Svetlana Alliluyeva (1926–2011) Russian Defector, Memoirist

He who writes love letters must have clammy hands.
German Proverb

A man who publishes his letters becomes a nudist—nothing shields him from the world’s gaze except his bare skin. A writer, writing away, can always fix himself up to make himself more presentable, but a man who has written a letter is stuck with it for all time.
E. B. White (1985–99) American Essayist, Humorist

Life is too precious to be spent in this weaving and unweaving of false impressions, and it is better to live quietly under some degree of misrepresentation than to attempt to remove it by the uncertain process of letter-writing.
George Eliot (Mary Anne Evans) (1819–80) English Novelist

Sir, more than kisses, letters mingle souls. For, thus friends absent speak.
John Donne (1572–1631) English Poet, Cleric

More than kisses, letters mingle souls.
John Donne (1572–1631) English Poet, Cleric

I sometimes think one of the great blessings we shall enjoy in heaven, will be to receive letters by every post and never be obliged to reply to them.
Washington Irving (1783–1859) American Essayist, Biographer, Historian

I hold that the parentheses are by far the most important parts of a non-business letter.
D. H. Lawrence (1885–1930) English Novelist, Playwright, Poet, Essayist, Literary Critic

A prudent man will read the letter from back to front.
Turkish Proverb

To find out your real opinion of someone, judge the impression you have when you first see a letter from them.
Arthur Schopenhauer (1788–1860) German Philosopher

A dream that is not interpreted is like a letter that has not been opened.
The Talmud Sacred Text of the Jewish Faith

It seems a long time since the morning mail could be called correspondence.
Jacques Barzun (b.1907) American Cultural Historian, Philosopher

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