Sir Francis Bacon Quote

Drunkenness is nothing but voluntary madness.

Bacchus has drowned more men than Neptune.

The smaller the drink the clearer the head.

Of all calamities this is the greatest.

The fury of a demon instantly possessed me. I knew myself no longer. My original soul seemed, at once, to take its flight from my body; and a more than fiendish malevolence, gin-nurtured, thrilled eve...

O God that men should put an enemy in their mouths to steal away their brains! that we should with joy pleas-ance revel and applause transform ourselves into beasts!