Tea tempers the spirit and harmonizes the mind; dispels lassitude and relieves fatigue, awakens thought and prevents drowsiness.

Lu Yu

When you are drinking tea, it is basically a private conversation between the tea and your individual soul.

Lu Ann Pannunzio

The spirit of the tea beverage is one of peace, comfort and refinement.

Arthur Gray

Tea is quiet and our thirst for tea is never far from our craving for beauty.

James Norwood Pratt

The tea session is modeled after the silence of retreat; a time to enjoy life far removed from daily existence.

Sen Joo

There is something in the nature of tea that leads us into a world of quiet contemplation of life.

Lin Yutang

Tea, though ridiculed by those who are naturally coarse in their nervous sensibilities will always be the favorite beverage of the intellectual.

Thomas de Quincey

Each cup of tea represents an imaginary voyage.

Catherine Douzel

Some people will tell you there is a great deal of poetry and fine sentiment in a chest of tea.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

A cup of tea is a cup of peace.

Ken Cohen