A professional man of letters, especially if he is much at…

A professional man of letters, especially if he is much at war with unscrupulous enemies, is naturally jealous of his privacy; he will be…

— Walter Raleigh

I shall never write an autobiography, I'm much too jealous of my privacy for that.

— Nadine Gordimer

“When I consider Life, 'tis all a cheat; Yet, fooled with hope, men favour the deceit; Trust on, and think to-morrow will repay: To-morrow's…

— John Dryden

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

— Anonymous

My idea is this, that when you only love a little you’re naturally not jealous-or are only jealous also a little, so that it…

— Henry James

I am a mortal enemy to arbitrary government and unlimited power. I am naturally very jealous for the rights and liberties of my country,…

— Benjamin Franklin

My idea is this, that when you only love a little you're naturally not jealous — or are only jealous also a little, so…

— Henry James

“The contents of a man's letters are more valuable than the contents of his purse.”

— George R.R. Martin

You must not suppose, because I am a man of letters, that I never tried to earn an honest living.

— George Bernard Shaw

A man of letters never objects to a slum. He sharpens his pen there.

— George A. Moore

Bierce radiates brilliancy, and perhaps no other man of letters ever had a more ready command of condensed expression. For him, each word has…

— Edwin Markham

“I transcribe my text with no concern for timeliness. In the years when I discovered the Abbé Vallet volume, there was a widespread conviction…

— Umberto Eco

In a man’s letters his soul lies naked.

— Samuel Johnson

A man of letters, merely by reading a phrase, can estimate exactly the literary merit of its author.

— Marcel Proust

The man of science, like the man of letters, is too apt to view mankind only in the abstract, selecting in his consideration only…

— James G. Frazer