TEA

1. The hot water is to remain upon it [the tea] no longer than whiles you can say the Miserere Psalm very leisurely.—SIR KENELM DIGBY, The Closet Opened
   

2. There are few hours in life more agreeable than the hour dedicated to the ceremony known as afternoon tea.—HENRY JAMES, The Portrait of a Lady
   

3. Sassafras wood boiled down to a kind of tea, and tempered with an infusion of milk and sugar, hath to some tastes a delicacy beyond the China luxury.—CHARLES LAMB, The Praise of Chimney-Sweepers
   

4. He came in
   When I was out
   To borrow some tea
   Was why he came in,
   And he went without;
   So I was in
   And he was out.—JACK LONDON
   

5. Thank God for tea! What would the world do without tea?— how did it exist? I am glad I was not born before tea.—SYDNEY SMITH, Lady Holland's Memoir