All letters, methinks, should be free and easy as one's discourse, not studied as an oration, nor made up of hard words like a charm.


letter to William Temple, September 1653

Dorothy Osborne Quotes

All letters, methinks, should be free and easy as one's discourse, not studied as an oration, nor made up of hard words like a charm.

All letters, methinks, should be free and easy as one's discourse, not studied as an oration, nor made up of hard words like a charm.

All letters, methinks, should be free and easy as one's discourse, not studied as an oration, nor made up of hard words like a charm.

All letters, methinks, should be free and easy as one's discourse, not studied as an oration, nor made up of hard words like a charm.