Tea, Coffee, Wine, or Cocoa?

It’s a sorta typecasting exercise, but I still love the lyrical phrasing of this quote I came across on a tea cup this morning:

There is a subtle charm in the taste of tea which makes it irresistible and capable of idealisation. Western humourists were not slow to mingle the fragrance of their thoughts with its aroma. It has not the arrogance of wine, the self-consciousness of coffee, nor the simpering innocence of cocoa.

Kakuzo Okakura in The Book of Tea.

What a way to augment the pleasure of having my morning tea .