Letterwriting Quotes & Sayings

On the run in the African jungle... The only man that can save her, is the greatest risk her heart has ever faced. — Louise Rose-Innes

Why do we wait until tomorrow to do good? Why do we wait to be rich before giving? Is not the gift of ourselves better than money, and is there a day or even an hour in which we could not give a tear or a smile to someone who is suffering? — Elisabeth Leseur

If then the prosperity of the commercial classes, will most certainly lead to accumulation of capital, and the encouragement of productive industry; these can by no means be so surely obtained as by a fall in the price of corn. — David Ricardo

I have often thought of the postman's bringing me a letter as one of the pleasures I shall miss in heaven. — Elizabeth Gaskell

O how quickly passes away the glory of the earth. — Thomas A Kempis

I am made of beauty. I notice beauty all around me every day. I am beautifully blessed! — Amy Leigh Mercree

Letterwriting is the natural outlet of the "odds." The busy-bodies, the idle, the perverted, the cranks, the feel-it-my-duties ... Also the plain depraved. They all write letters. It's their safe outlet, you see. They can be as interfering, as long-winded, as obscene, as pompous, as one-idea'd, as they like on paper, and no one can kick them for it. So they write. My God, how they write! — Josephine Tey