“The straightest way to the heart of old matters is an old letter.”
Source: Modern thinkers and present problems, (1923), p. 3 : Chapter 1. Giordano Bruno, 1548-1600
Source: 1854, Fern Leaves from Fanny's Portfolio, Second series, Hungry Husbands. Often quoted as The way to a man's heart is through his stomach. Also quoted in Chambers dictionary of Quotations, p. 321
“The straightest way to the heart of old matters is an old letter.”
Source: Modern thinkers and present problems, (1923), p. 3 : Chapter 1. Giordano Bruno, 1548-1600
“There is a road from the eye to the heart that does not go through the intellect.”
"A Defence of Heraldry"
The Defendant (1901)
Context: There is a road from the eye to the heart that does not go through the intellect. Men do not quarrel about the meaning of sunsets; they never dispute that the hawthorn says the best and wittiest thing about the spring.
“Anybody who believes that the way to a man's heart is through his stomach flunked geography.”
"Special Exposure of False Faith" (1524)
Wu Ming Presents Thomas Müntzer, Sermon to the Princes
Un Art de Vivre (The Art of Living) (1939), The Art of Friendship