A true German can’t stand the French, / Yet willingly he drinks their wines.

Alcohol is the monarch of liquids.

There was a great deal of drinking among us but little drunkenness. We all seemed to feel that Prohibition was a personal affront and that we had a moral duty to undermine it.

To live on a day-to-day basis is insufficient for human beings; we need to transcend, transport, escape; we need meaning, understanding, and explanation.

Drink today and drown all sorrow; / You shall perhaps not do it tomorrow.

Modern life is often a mechanical oppression, and liquor is the only mechanical relief.

Sobriety diminishes, discriminates, and says no; drunkenness expands, unites, and says yes.

People who’ve drunk neat wine don’t care a damn.

The drunken man is a living corpse.

There are two things that will be believed of any man whatsoever, and one of them is that he has taken to drink.

Under the pressure of the cares and sorrows of our mortal condition, men have at all times and in all countries, called in some physical aid to their moral consolations—wine, beer, opium, brandy, or tobacco.

Abstainer, n. A weak man who yields to the temptation of denying himself a pleasure.

Drugs, cataplasms, and whiskey are stupid substitutes for the dignity and potency of divine mind and its efficacy to heal.