money ... is only important when you have none; and though it may not be everything, it goes a very long way towards blocking up the winter draft of age.

there is this malign curse laid on dipsomaniacs. That they must absolutely have a drink: in order to feel strong enough to stop drinking.

A lot of warm vulgarity is incomparably preferable to a little bit of pinched niceness

Between threading a needle and raving insanity is the smallest eye in creation.

There is, happily, no limit to the faith of human nature in believing what it wants to believe.

There is a brotherliness about a drinking person, which is coldly lacking in the straight and narrow enemies of drink; the difference between the two is more marked than nationality or belief: it is an opposite species altogether. It is against the unwritten laws of congeniality for them to mix. For me, a man who does not drink is distinctly indecent.

Virtue in a man doesn't make you want to grab him.