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Alcohol doesn't console, it doesn't fill up anyone's psychological gaps, all it replaces is the lack of God. It doesn't comfort man. On the contrary, it encourages him in his folly, it transports him to the supreme regions where he is master of his own destiny.

Often people display a curious respect for a man drunk, rather like the respect of simple races for the insane... There is something awe-inspiring in one who has lost all inhibitions.

I think a man ought to get drunk at least twice a year just on principle, so he won't let himself get snotty about it.

Man, being reasonable, must get drunk; the best of life is but intoxication.

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

An intelligent man is sometimes forced to be drunk to spend time with his fools.

He is a drunkard who takes more than three glasses though he be not drunk.

By the time a bartender knows what drink a man will have before he orders, there is little else about him worth knowing.

It is not true that drink changes a man's character. It may reveal it more clearly.

Drinking habits were very prevalent among men, and were not in any way disgraceful, unless excessive.