Some writers take to drink, others take to audiences.

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.

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.

I am sure of this: that if everybody was to drink their bottle a day, there would not be half the disorders in the world there are now.

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.

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.

Moderation in all things.

The only thing that really worried me was the ether. There is nothing in the world more helpless and irresponsible and depraved than a man in the depths of an ether binge. And I knew we’d get into that rotten stuff pretty soon. Probably at the next gas station.

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.

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

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

The drunken man is a living corpse.

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