I don't even drink coffee anymore. We studied it a lot and knew that for the health-conscious person, tea was a rapidly growing trend.

Tea can have just as much caffeine, we just tend to find that it takes longer to hit you, it's more of a steady buzz. Where coffee brings you up then down pretty quickly.

Neither drink (coffee or tea) was known in Frankish lands, but seated in the coffeehouses, I drank of each at various times, twirling my mustache and listening with attention to that headier draught, the wine of the intellect, that sweet and bitter j

The morning cup of coffee has an exhilaration about it which the cheering influence of the afternoon or evening cup of tea cannot be expected to reproduce.

... The truth of the matter is, that most English people don't know how to make tea anymore either, and most people drink cheap instant coffee instead, which is a pity, and gives Americans the impression that the English are just generally clueless about hot stimulants.

Tea is certainly as much of a social drink as coffee, and more domestic, for the reason that the teacup hours are the family hours."