Who said “Is there no Latin word for Tea? Upon my soul, if I had known that I would have let the…”?

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

“Tea! Thou soft, thou sober, sage, and venerable liquid, thou innocent pretence for bringing the wicked of both sexes together in a morning; thou female tongue-running, smile-smoothing, heart-opening, wink-tipping cordial, to whose glorious insipidity I owe the happiest moment of my life, let me fall prostrate thus, and adore thee.”

“It has been well said that tea is suggestive of a thousand wants, from which spring the decencies and luxuries of civilization.”

“Under certain circumstances there are few hours in life more agreeable than the hour dedicated to the ceremony known as afternoon tea.”

“Our trouble is that we drink too much tea. I see in this the slow revenge of the Orient, which has diverted the Yellow River down our throats.”

“It is the best of all trades, to make songs, and the second best to sing them.”

“When I am dead, I hope it may be said: ''His sins were scarlet, but his books were read.''”

“I'm tired of love; I'm still more tired of rhyme; but money gives me pleasure all the time.”

“I shoot the Hippopotamus With bullets made of platinum, Because if I use leaden ones His hide is sure to flatten 'em.”

“From quiet homes and first beginning, out to the undiscovered ends, there's nothing worth the wear of winning, but laughter and the love of friends.”

“Remote and ineffectual don.”