True beauty could be discovered only by one who mentally complete the incomplete.

Friends are flowers in life's garden.

Teaism is a cult founded on the adoration of the beautiful among the sordid facts of everyday existence. It inculcates purity and harmony, the mystery of mutual charity, the romanticism of the social order.

In the worship of Bacchus, we have sacrificed too freely.... Why not consecrate ourselves to the queen of the Camelias, and revel in the warm stream of sympathy that flows from her altar? In the liquid amber within the ivory-porcelain, the initiated may touch the sweet reticence of Confucius.

Tea is more than an idealization of the form of drinking; it is a religion of the art of life.

Cares melt when you kneel in your garden.

It is not the accumulation of extraneous knowledge, but the realization of the self within, that constitutes true progress.