Drunkenness is the vice of a good constitution or a bad memory; of a constitution so treacherously good that it never bends until it break; or of a memory that recollects the pleasure of getting drunk, but forgets the pains of getting sober.

Deliberate with caution, but act with decision, and yield with graciousness, or oppose with firmness.

Ennui has made more gamblers than avarice, more drunkards than thirst, and perhaps as many suicides as despair.

Death is the liberator of him whom freedom cannot release, the physician of him whom medicine cannot cure, and the comforter of him whom time cannot console.