I'd hate to be a teetotaller. Imagine getting up in the morning and knowing that's as good as you're going read more

I'd hate to be a teetotaller. Imagine getting up in the morning and knowing that's as good as you're going to feel all day.

If a man earnestly seeks a righteous life, his first act of abstinence is from animal food.

If a man earnestly seeks a righteous life, his first act of abstinence is from animal food.

Abstinence is as easy to me, as temperance would be difficult.

Abstinence is as easy to me, as temperance would be difficult.

Abstaining is favorable both to the head and the pocket.

Abstaining is favorable both to the head and the pocket.

Abstinence is easier than temperance

Abstinence is easier than temperance

He had no further intercourse with Spirits, but lived upon the Total Abstinence Principle, ever afterwards; and it was always read more

He had no further intercourse with Spirits, but lived upon the Total Abstinence Principle, ever afterwards; and it was always said of him, that he knew how to keep Christmas well, if any man alive possessed the knowledge

The best thing to do with the best things in life is to give them up.

The best thing to do with the best things in life is to give them up.

Subdue your appetites, my dears, and you've conquered human nature.

Subdue your appetites, my dears, and you've conquered human nature.

"meat produced under current factory farming conditions
(which transgress Jewish prohibitions against cruelty to animals) render the eating of such read more

"meat produced under current factory farming conditions
(which transgress Jewish prohibitions against cruelty to animals) render the eating of such meat, halachically unacceptable (i.e. unacceptable in terms of
Jewish law.)"