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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. It is essentially a worship of the Imperfect, as it is a tender attempt to accomplish something possible in this impossible thing we know as life.
Those who cannot feel the littleness of great things in themselves are apt to overlook the greatness of little things in others.
Nay, we had something worse against you: we used to think you the most impracticable people on the earth, for you were said to preach what you never practiced.
It has not the arrogance of wine, the self- consciousness of coffee, nor the simpering innocence of cocoa.
the greatest pleasure he knew was to do a good action by stealth, and to have it found out by accident.
Teaism is the art of concealing beauty that you may discover it, of suggesting what you dare not reveal. It is the noble secret of laughing at yourself, calmly yet thoroughly, and is thus humour itself,--the smile of philosophy.
Thus began the dualism of love--two souls rolling through space and never at rest until they join together to complete the universe.
They spoke in paradoxes, for they were afraid of uttering half-truths.
To keep the proportion of things and give place to others without losing one's own position was the secret of success in the mundane drama.
True beauty could be discovered only by one who mentally completed the incomplete. The virility of life and art lay in its possibilities for growth.
A master has always something to offer, while we go hungry solely because of our own lack of appreciation.
a woman cannot love a man who is truly vain, for there is no crevice in his heart for love to enter and fill up.
We are ever brutal to those who love and serve us in silence, but the time may come when, for our cruelty, we shall be deserted by these best friends of ours.
