1. E. B. White - “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 things up to make himself more presentable, but a man who has written a letter is stuck with it for all time.”

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2. Blaise Pascal - “I didn't have time to write a short letter, so I wrote a long one instead.”

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3. Blaise Pascal - “I have made this letter longer than usual, only because I have not had the time to make it shorter. Je n'ai fait celle-ci plus longue que parce que je n'ai pa eu le loisir de la faire plus courte.”

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4. Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe - “We lay aside letters never to read them again, and at last we destroy them out discretion, and so disappears the most immediate breath of life, irrecoverably for ourselves and for others.”

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5. Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe - “The people who are absent are the ideal; those who are present seem to be quite commonplace.”

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6. John Donne - “Sir, more than kisses, letters mingle souls; For, thus friends absent speak.”

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7. Marcus Tullius Cicero - “Other relaxations are peculiar to certain times, places and stages of life, but the study of letters is the nourishment of our youth, and the joy of our old age. They throw an additional splendor on prosperity, and are the resource and consolation of adversity; they delight at home, and are no embarrassment abroad; in short, they are company to us at night, our fellow travelers on a journey, and attendants in our rural recesses.”

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8. Lord George Gordon Byron - “One of the pleasures of reading old letters is the knowledge that they need no answer.”

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9. Francis Bacon - “I knew one that when he wrote a letter he would put that which was most material in the postscript, as if it had been a bymatter.”

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10. James Fallows - “Always write angry letters to your enemies. Never mail them.”

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