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.

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.

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

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

Drinking with women is as unnatural as scolding with ’em.

An old man is twice a child, and so is a drunken man.

That which the sober man keeps in his breast, the drunken man lets out at the lips. Astute people, when they want to ascertain a man’s true character, make him drunk.

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

I have sometimes thought that the laws ought not to punish those actions of evil which are committed when the senses are steeped in intoxication.

Alcohol is the monarch of liquids.

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

I used to do drugs. I still do, but I used to, too.

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.