A love-letter. [ French ]
A letter does not blush. [ Cicero ]
Black-letter record of the ages. [ Diderot ]
Never answer an anonymous letter. [ Yogi Berra ]
The heart's letter is read in the eyes. [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]
Beauty is a good letter of introduction. [ German Proverb ]
Preferment goes by letter and affection. [ William Shakespeare ]
Money will do more than my lord's letter. [ Proverb ]
A smart coat is a good letter of introduction. [ Dutch Proverb ]
A good face is the best letter of recommendation. [ Queen Elizabeth ]
Ugliness is a letter of credit for some special purposes. [ Chesterfield ]
A pleasing figure is a perpetual letter of recommendation. [ Bacon ]
A letter, timely writ, is a rivet to the chain of affection;
And a letter, untimely delayed, is as rust to the solder. [ Tupper ]
An indiscreet man is an unsealed letter: every one can read it. [ Chamfort ]
If a good face is a letter of recommendation, a good heart is a letter of credit. [ Bulwer ]
Every book is, in an intimate sense, a circular-letter to the friends of him who writes it. [ R. L. Stevenson ]
The canine letter - the letter R. A growling dog will bare his teeth and growl the letter R.
The most delightful letter does not possess a hundredth part of the charm of a conversation. [ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe ]
'Tis sweet to stammer one letter of the Eternal's language; on earth it is called forgiveness. [ Henry Wadsworth Longfellow ]
Thou mayst be more prodigal of praise when thou writest a letter than when thou speakest in presence. [ Fuller ]
A Bellerophon's letter, (i.e. a letter requesting that the bearer should be dealt with in some summary way for an offence).
In order that a love-letter may be what it should be, one should begin it without knowing what he is going to say, and end it without knowing what he has said. [ Raison ]
A profusion of fancies and quotations is out of place in a love-letter. True feeling is always direct, and never deviates into by-ways to cull flowers of rhetoric. [ Bovee ]
The greatest of all injustice is that which goes under the name of law; and of all sorts of tyranny, the forcing the letter of the law against the equity is the most insupportable. [ L'Estrange ]
Eyes speak all languages; wait for no letter of introduction; they ask no leave of age or rank; they respect neither poverty nor riches, neither learning, nor power, nor virtue, nor sex, but intrude and come again, and go through and through you in a moment of time. [ Ralph Waldo Emerson ]
Resistance ought never to be thought of but when an utter subversion of the laws of the realm threatens the whole frame of our constitution, and no redress can otherwise be hoped for. It therefore does, and ought for ever, to stand in the eye and letter of the law as the highest offence. [ Walpole ]
Occasion or Opportunity? The occasion is that which determines our conduct, and amounts to a degree of necessity; the opportunity is that which invites to action. We do things as the occasion requires, or as the opportunity offers. We may have occasion to write a letter without having the opportunity. [ Pure English, Hackett And Girvin, 1884 ]