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.

Give me chastity and continence, but not just now.

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

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.

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.

Some writers take to drink, others take to audiences.

If you were to ask me if I’d ever had the bad luck to miss my daily cocktail, I’d have to say that I doubt it; where certain things are concerned, I plan ahead.

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

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

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.

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