People write me letters and say I should answer them. But I don't like to answer letters. I don't write letters. I've never written my mother one.
If we lose our Money, it gives us some Concern. If we are cheated or robb'd of it, we are angry: But Money lost may be found; what we are robb'd of may be restored: The Treasure of Time once lost, can never be recovered; yet we squander it as tho' 'twere nothing worth, or we had no Use for it.
The loss of letters in today's world is one of the great losses we are experiencing, though we shan't know the full extent of it for another twenty or thirty years when we'll wish we had those letters never written.
Credibility, like virginity, can only be lost once and never recovered.
People no longer write letters. Lacking the leisure, and, for the most part, the ability, they dictate dispatches, and scribble messages. When you are in the humor, you should take a peep at some of the letters written by people who lived long ago.
I realized how valuable the art and practice of writing letters are, and how important it is to remind people of what a treasure letters--handwritten letters--can be. In our throwaway era of quick phone calls, faxes, and email, it's all to easy never to find the time to write letters. That's a great pity--for historians and the rest of us.
You get thrown off balance out there. And I never recovered. Well, I haven't recovered yet.
Free people, remember this maxim: we may acquire liberty, but it is never recovered if it is once lost.
Time lost, as men may see, For nothing may recovered be.
I think I've never left my house to take a plane without writing my will. There must be about 30 wills in my drawers, everywhere, in the kitchen. Everywhere, I have wills because I write wills more easily than I write love letters.
Life is never as long as we want it to be, and wasted time can never be recovered.
O ay, letters - I had letters - I am persecuted with letters - I hate letters - nobody knows how to write letters; and yet one has 'em, one does not know why - they serve one to pin up one's hair.
If all the music written since Bach's time should be lost, it could be reconstructed on the foundation which Bach laid.
Miracles are a retelling in small letters of the very same story which is written across the whole world in letters too large for some of us to see.
I've written immense love letters that are supposed to be opened over days at a time.
The Zodiac letters from 1978 on were driven to Sacramento in a cardboard box, and these letters have never been refrigerated, which, for letters going back - what? - 30 years almost is a must for DNA.