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

A man of letters is often a man with two natures,--one a book nature, the other a human nature. These often clash sadly.

— Edwin Percy Whipple

The universal object and idol of men of letters is reputation

— John Adams

Magnitudes are algebraically represented by letter, men by men of letters, and so on.

— Lewis Carroll

Love teaches letters to a man unlearn'd.

— Euripides

A professional man of letters, especially if he is much at war with unscrupulous enenemies, is naturally jealous of his privacy... so it was,…

— Anonymous

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

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

“It may be whispered to those uninitiated people who are anxious to know the habits and make the acquaintance of men of letters, that…

— William Makepeace Thackeray

My readers at that time were still men of letters; but there had to be other people waiting to read my poems.

— Salvatore Quasimodo

Thus, the poet's word is beginning to strike forcefully upon the hearts of all men, while absolute men of letters think that they alone…

— Salvatore Quasimodo

“Double standards are inspiration to men of letters, but they are apt to be fatal to politicians.”

— Henry Adams

God! How men of letters are stupid.

— Napoleon Bonaparte

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