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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.

The main business of religions is to purify, control, and restrain that excessive and exclusive taste for well-being which men acquire in times of equality.

I see that a man cannot give himself up to drinking without being miserable one half his days and mad the other.

It seems that not being religious is a form of risk-taking, consistent with other patterns of short-sighted behaviour in men.

If men had to do their vile work without the assistance of woman and the stimulant of strong drink they would be obliged to be more divine and less brutal.

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

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

It can be demonstrated that in any society there is a distribution of religious tastes and concerns.

The trouble with many men is that they have got just enough religion to make them miserable. If there is not joy in religion, you have got a leak in your religion.

Men should be judged not by their tint of skin, the gods they serve, the vintage they drink, nor by the way they fight, or love, or sin, but by the quality of the thought they think.