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

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.

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

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

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.

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.

My advice to people today is as follows: if you take the game of life seriously, if you take your nervous system seriously, if you take your sense organs seriously, if you take the energy process seriously, you must turn on, tune in, and drop out.

Better sleep with a sober cannibal than a drunken Christian.

Alcohol is the monarch of liquids.

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

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

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.