Lapham’s Quarterly

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

Whoever gulps down wine as a horse gulps down water is called a Scythian.

A man who exposes himself when he is intoxicated has not the art of getting drunk.

Drink does not drown care but waters it, and makes it grow faster.

Sex and drugs and rock and roll.

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.

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

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.

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

The pleasure we hold in esteem for the course of our lives ought to have a greater share of our time dedicated to it; we should refuse no occasion nor omit any opportunity of drinking, and always have it in our minds.