Sir, I did not count your glasses of wine, why should you number up my cups of tea?

Wine gives a man nothing... it only puts in motion what had been locked up in frost.

Tea's proper use is to amuse the idle, and relax the studious, and dilute the full meals of those who cannot use exercise, and will not use abstinence."

(Essay on Tea, 1757.)

Whoever envies another confesses his superiority.

This is one of the disadvantages of wine, it makes a man mistake words for thoughts.

a hardened and shameless tea-drinker, who has, for twenty years, diluted his meals with only the infusion of this fascinating plant; whose kettle has scarcely time to cool; who with tea amuses the evening, with tea solaces the midnight, and, with tea, welcomes the morning.