“The intelligent man who empties these cups of foaming coffee, he alone knows truth. May God deprive of this drink the foolish man who condemns it with incurable obstinacy.”

“Fontenelle and Voltaire have both been quoted as authors of the famous reply to the remark that coffee was a slow poison: ‘I think it must be, for I’ve been drinking it for eighty-five years and am not dead yet.’”