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

The Principles of Success in Literature (1865)
Context: Literature is at once the cause and the effect of social progress. It deepens our natural sensibilities, and strengthens by exercise our intellectual capacities. It stores up the accumulated experience of the race, connecting Past and Present into a conscious unity; and with this store it feeds successive generations, to be fed in turn by them. As its importance emerges into more general recognition, it necessarily draws after it a larger crowd of servitors, filling noble minds with a noble ambition.

Source: Intuitions and Summaries of Thought (1862), Volume II, p. 7.

Book IV, ch. 241. <br class="br"> Knickerbocker&#x27;s History of New York http://www.gutenberg.org/etext/13042 (1809)

Ibid., p. 58
The Book of Disquiet
Original: Sou todas essa coisas, embora o não queira, no fundo confuso da minha sensibilidade fatal.

While visiting his ancestral homestead in Wexford, as quoted in BBC News http://news.bbc.co.uk/onthisday/hi/dates/stories/june/27/newsid_4461000/4461115.stm <br class="br">1963

Speech at the Lord Mayor&#x27;s Banquet http://web.archive.org/20041128025440/www.number10.gov.uk/output/Page6583.asp, 15 November 2004. <br class="br">Urging Europe to stop ridiculing American President George W. Bush. <br class="br">2000s

Source: Touching Darkness

Variant: Yes, that's it! Said the Hatter with a sigh, it's always tea time.
Source: Alice in Wonderland

Part II. Of the Extent of Sensible Knowledge.
The Physiology of the Senses: Or, How and what We See, Hear, Taste, Feel and Smell (1856)