All Quotes by Mail
“The Post Office Department is like a great root spreading many feet under ground and nourishing the mighty oak. It is the tap root of civilization.”
“Belshazzar had a letter,— On revelation's wall.”
“Carrier of news and knowledgeEnlarger of the common life”
“It is said that as many days as there are in the whole journey, so many are the men and horses that stand along the road, each horse and man at the interval of a day's journey; and these are stayed neither by snow nor rain nor heat nor darkness from accomplishing their appointed course with all speed.”
“Soon as thy letters trembling I unclose,That well-known name awakens all my woes.”
“Line after line my gushing eyes o'erflow,Lost in a convent's solitary gloom!”
“Heav'n first taught letters for some wretch's aid,Some banish'd lover, or some captive maid.”
“The letter is too long by half a mile.”
“Here are a few of the unpleasant'st wordsThat over blotted paper!”
“Tell him there's a post come from my master, with his horn full of good news.”
“What! have I 'scaped love-letters in the holiday-time of my beauty, and am I now a subject for them?”
“I have a letter from herWithout the show of both.”
“Jove and my stars be praised! Here is yet a postcript.”
“If this letter move him not, his legs cannot. I'll give 't him.”
“Let me hear from thee by letters.”
“I readThe silent-speaking words.”
“Thou bringest * * * * * letters unto trembling hands.”
“(He) put that which was most material in the postscript.”
“He whistles as he goes, light-hearted wretch,Perhaps to thousands, and of joy to some.”
“The welcome news is in the letter found;In all things needful to be known, is plain.”
“Carrier of news and knowledge,Among men and nations.”
“Messenger of sympathy and love,Enlarger of the common life.”
“Every day brings a ship,Is the word they wish to hear.”
“Sent letters by posts … being hastened and pressed on.”
“Thy letter sent to prove me, Thy letter, though, is long.”
“Neither snow, nor rain, nor heat, nor night stays these couriers from the swift completion of their appointed rounds.”
“Letters, from absent friends, extinguish fear,For minds could then meet minds with heav'n between.”
“An exquisite invention this,Charming for their truth, of daisies.”
“A piece of simple goodness—a letter gushing from the heart; a beautiful unstudied vindication of the worth and untiring sweetness of human nature—a record of the invulnerability of man, armed with high purpose, sanctified by truth.”
“A strange volume of real life in the daily packet of the postman. Eternal love and instant payment!”
“My days are swifter than a post.”
“Kind messages, that pass from land to land; One touch of fire,—and all the rest is mystery!”
“Good-bye—my paper's out so nearly,I've only room for, Yours sincerely.”
“Ev'n so, with all submission, IWho may return me much a better.”
“And oft the pangs of absence to removeBy letters, soft interpreters of love.”
“I will touchAnd prove a true love-letter.”
“A woman seldom writes her Mind, but in her Postscript.”
“Go, little letter, apace, apace, Tell my wish to her dewy blue eye.”