Sassafras Tea

Famous quotes containing the words sassafras and/or tea:

    “I pray my companion, if he wishes for bread, to ask me for bread, and if he wishes for sassafras or arsenic, to ask me for them, and not to hold out his plate, as if I knew already.”
    —Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)

    “Poor Henry, he’s spending eternity wandering round and round a stately park and the fence is just too high for him to peep over and they’re having tea just too far away for him to hear what the countess is saying.”
    —W. Somerset Maugham (1874–1966)