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Everything one does in life, even love, occurs in an express train racing toward death. To smoke opium is to get out of the train while it is still moving. It is to concern oneself with something other than life or death.

Opium teaches only one thing, which is that aside from physical suffering, there is nothing real.

The expense of a war could be paid in time; but the expense of opium, when once the habit is formed, will only increase with time.

Among the remedies which it has pleased Almighty God to give to man to relieve his sufferings, none is so universal and so efficacious as opium.

It is not opium which makes me work but its absence, and in order for me to feel its absence it must from time to time be present.

There is always a need for intoxication: China has opium, Islam has hashish, the West has woman.

Marxism is the opium of the intellectuals.

Tranquil pleasures last the longest; we are not fitted to bear the burden of great joys.

People of substance may sin without being exposed for their stolen pleasure; but servants and the poorer sort of women have seldom an opportunity of concealing a big belly, or at least the consequences of it.