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

In a man's letters you know, Madam, his soul lies naked, his letters are only the mirror of his breast, whatever passes within him is shown undisguised in its natural process. Nothing is inverted, nothing distorted, you see systems in their elements, you discover actions in their motives.

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