Alcohol Quote by Abraham Lincoln

The demon of intemperance ever seems to have delighted in sucking the blood of genius and of generosity.

— Abraham Lincoln

If, by chance, someone among those men of extraordinary talent is found who has firmness of soul and who refuses to yield to the…

— Jean-Jacques Rousseau

“A youth of such promise, especially if his body be on a par with his mind, will be at once foremost among all his…

— Benjamin Cocker

He who has mastery over his incensive power has mastery also over the demons. But anyone who is a slave to it is a…

— Evagrius Ponticus

“Nothing is sweeter and addictive than power, the unlucky soul this demon possesses, if he is not sacrificed on its altar will sacrifice others…

— Bangambiki Habyarimana

The youth, intoxicated with his admiration of a hero, fails to see, that it is only a projection of his own soul, which he…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

“The great human being is a finale; the great age — the Renaissance, for example — is a finale. The genius, in work and…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

“You have a good many little gifts and virtues, but there is no need of parading them, for conceit spoils the finest genius. There…

— Louisa May Alcott

“and stature commanding and exact—in intellect richly endowed—in natural eloquence a prodigy—in soul manifestly "created but a little lower than the angels"—yet a slave,…

— Frederick Douglass

The scholar was not raised by the sacred thoughts amongst which he dwelt, but used them to selfish ends. He was a profane person,and…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

“The more formidable the contradiction between inexhaustible life-joy and inevitable fate, the greater the longing which reveals itself in the kingdom of poetry and…

— Ferdinand Cohn

“The crowd of influences streaming on the young soul is so great, the clods of barbarism and violence flung at him so strange and…

— Friedrich Nietzsche