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.

Give me chastity and continence, but not just now.

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.

Thanks be to God: since my leaving drinking of wine, I do find myself much better and do mind my business better, and do spend less money, and less time lost in idle company.

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

Better sleep with a sober cannibal than a drunken Christian.

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

Alcohol is the monarch of liquids.

It is impossible to live pleasurably without living wisely, well, and justly, and impossible to live wisely, well, and justly without living pleasurably.

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

Some writers take to drink, others take to audiences.