I want to be a man of letters. All 26 of them.

“It’s a lie. There isn’t safety in numbers. But there is safety in letters. There are only 26 letters, and yet they are more…

— Jarod Kintz

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

“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

I don't fall into the physical manifestation of a man of letters. So I guess people assume the scripts are delivered to me under…

— Sylvester Stallone

The love of letters is the forlorn hope of the man of letters. His ruling passion is the love of fame.

— William Hazlitt

In a man's letters you know, Madam, his soul lies naked, his letters are only the mirror of his breast, whatever passes within him…

— Samuel Johnson

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

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

Everyone in their life has his own particular way of expressing life's purpose - the lawyer his eloquence, the painter his palette, and the…

— Gino Bartali

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

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

— George R.R. Martin