In Praise of Letters
The Post is the consolation of life. -- Votaire
The earth has nothing like a she epistle. -- Byron
As long as there are postmen, life will have zest. -- William James
In a man's letters, you know, madam, his soul lies naked. -- Dr. Johnson
The public will always give up its dinner to read love letters. -- George Jean Nathan
Letters, such as written by wise men, are, of all the words of men, in my judgement, the best. -- Francis Bacon
The need of composing letters was the earliest and most constant incentive to terseness, clarity, and exactitude of statement. -- R. L. Mergoz
Let those who may complain that it (the Shaw-Ellen Terry "romantic correspondence") was all on paper remember that only on paper has humanity yet achieved glory, beauty, truth, knowledge, virtue, and abiding love. -- George Bernard Shaw