David Sumner

“Joinery, it now occurs to me, must be the foundation of all craft. You put two things together to make something else, to accomplish some purpose; the better they fit, or work together, the greater the pleasure from the making.”
― John Jerome, Stone Work: Reflections on Serious Play and Other Aspects of Country Life

“Tea ... is a religion of the art of life.”
― Kakuzō Okakura, The Book of Tea

“You can never get a cup of tea large enough or a book long enough to suit me.”
― C.S. Lewis

“I would give a hundred Hemingways for one Stendhal or one Benjamin Constant. And I regret the influence of this literature on many young writers.”
― Albert Camus, Lyrical and Critical Essays