“in a private letter to letter to Emile de la Rue on 23 October 1857”

“Every letter was a love letter.”

“Epifanio de los Santos, greatest connoisseur of Filipiniana, foremost Filipino historian and biographer, and the first Filipino to become member of the Spanish Academy of Letters.”

“Consistent poetry is made of letters. Letters have no idea. Letters as such have no sound, they offer only tonal possibilities, to be valuated by the performer. The consistent poem weighs the value of both letters and groups.”

“She read a lot, wrote letters without the letter ъ, …”

“Others such as these met him in the outer mountain and thought to mock him because he had not learned letters. And Antony said to them, 'What do you say? Which is first, mind or letters? And which is the cause of which— mind of letters or letters of mind.' And when they answered mind is first and the inventor of letters, Antony said, 'Whoever, therefore, has a sound mind has not need of letters.”

“Now, look, baby, 'Union' is spelled with 5 letters. It is not a four-letter word.”

“There are words agreeable to the eye (in the same way there are words agreeable to the ear). By a fortunate combination of the letters that form them or by the harmony of these letters. For each letter has its shape.”

“Temple was a man of the world amongst men of letters, a man of letters amongst men of the world.”

“The red-letter days, now become, to all intents and purposes, dead-letter days.”