A letter has distinct advantages. You can say all you want to say before the other person has a chance to put in a word.

when you can't see straight ahead, it's because you're about to turn a corner.

Heart-aches are forgotten, tears lose their bitterness, and like a leaf of lavendar in a store of linen, so does Memory make life sweet.

One uncongenial guest can ruin a dinner more easily than a poor salad, and that is saying a great deal.

Did you ever read a love-letter that wasn't an evidence of idiocy - except your own?

But somewhere on the great world the sun is always shining, and, just so sure as you live, it will sometime shine on you.

If we could only use other folks' experience, this here world would be heaven in about three generations, but we're so constructed that we never believe fire'll burn till we poke our own fingers into it to see. Other folks' scars don't go no ways at all toward convincin' us.