Great men Quote by Thomas Hood

“Lives of great men all remind us We can make our lives sublime, And, departing, leave behind us Footprints on the sands of time;…

— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

As a man lives and thinks, so he will write.

— John Galsworthy

“We lay aside letters never to read them again, and at last destroy them out of discretion, and so disappears the most beautiful, the…

— Anonymous

We lay aside letters never to read them again, and at last we destroy them out discretion, and so disappears the most immediate breath…

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

The loss of letters in today's world is one of the great losses we are experiencing, though we shan't know the full extent of…

— David Burnett

“In the years when I discoverd the Abbé Vallet volume, there was a widespread conviction that one should write only out of a commitment…

— Umberto Eco

I used to think that once a writer became a man of letters, if only for a half hour, he was done for. And…

— Dylan Thomas

Men who write love letters don't live in this century.

— Rita Rudner

Some time all kinds of letters will be published to the ineffable delight of endless readers.

— Alice B. Toklas

We'll keep writing and if it hits our standards we'll go with it. We're not here to destroy anything. It's as precious to us…

— Ian Brown

One man was so mad at me that he ended his letter Beware. You will never get out of this world alive.

— John Steinbeck

It's amazing that a man who is dead can talk to people through these pages. As long as this books survives, his ideas live.

— Christopher Paolini