sobriety quotes

Sobriety diminishes, discriminates, and says no; drunkenness expands, unites, and says yes.

-William James
  The Varieties of Religious Experience,'Mysticism'.

What marriage is to morality, a properly conducted licensed liquor traffic is to sobriety.

- Mark pseudonym of  Samuel Langhorne Clemens Twain
  Quotedin AlbertBigelow Paine (ed) MarkTwain's Notebook (1935), ch.23.