The Book of Tea

Kakuzo Okakura describes the history, varieties, and ceremonies of tea.

Cardboard wallet

Easy to make and sturdy. A simple vehicle for plain old cash.

Austere sensibilities

Even when she had to make some one a present of the kind called 'useful,' when she had to give an armchair or some table-silver or a walking stick, she would choose 'antiques,' as though their long desuetude had effaced from them any semblance of utility and fitted them rather to instruct us in the lives of the men of other days than to serve the common requirements of our own.

— Marcel Proust

Pocket address book

The Scully company makes a nice plain one.