Proverb by Confucius or Kung zi (551 B.C. - 479 B.C.) 

Everything has beauty, but not everyone sees it. 
Wheresoever you go, go with all your heart. 
Knowing is not as good as loving; loving is not as good as enjoying. 
To learn and practise what is learned from time to time is pleasure, is it not? To have friends from afar is happiness, is it not? To be unperturbed when not appreciated by others is a gentleman, is it not? 
Review the old and deducing the new makes a teacher. 
The gentleman understands righteousness, the petty man understands interest. 

Aspire to the principle, behave with virtue, abide by benevolence, and immerse yourself in the arts. 

Although my neighbors are all barbarians, 
And you, you are a thousand miles away, 
There are always two cups on my table. 

Proverb during the Tang Dynasty 

The best quality tea must have the creases like the leather boots of 

Better to be deprived of food for three days, than tea for one. 

Kissing is like drinking tea through a tea-strainer; you're always thirsty afterwards. 

Tartar horsemen, curl like the dewlap of a mighty bullock, unfold like a mist rising out of a ravine, gleam like a lake touched by a zephyr, and be wet and soft like earth newly swept by rain. - Lu Wu 

There is ordinary and ground tea. What is called cake tea is put in a bottle or jar after being pounded, and the boiling water is poured over it. Sometimes onion, ginger, jujube, orange peel, and peppermint are used, and it is left to boil for some time before the froth is skimmed. Alas! this is the slop water of a ditch. 

Proverb by Lu Wu 

The first bowl sleekly moistened throat and lips, 
The second banished all my loneliness 
The third expelled the dullness from my mind, 
Sharpening inspiration gained 
from all the books I've read. 
The fourth brought forth light perspiration, 
Dispersing a lifetime's troubles through my pores. 
The fifth bowl cleansed ev'ry atom of my being. 
The sixth has made me kin to the Immortals. 
This seventh... 
I can take no more.