The expense of a war could be paid in time; but the expense of opium, when once the habit is formed, will only increase with time.
Townsend Harris

The President of the United States thinks that for the Japanese opium is more dangerous than war.
Townsend Harris

The President wishes the Japanese to be very prudent about the introduction of opium, and if a treaty is made, he wishes that opium may be strictly prohibited.
Townsend Harris

There is always a need for intoxication: China has opium, Islam has hashish, the West has woman.
Andre Malraux

Thought is a kind of opium; it can intoxicate us, while still broad awake; it can make transparent the mountains and everything that exists.
Henri Frederic Amiel

Under the pressure of the cares and sorrows of our mortal condition, men have at all times, and in all countries, called in some physical aid to their moral consolations - wine, beer, opium, brandy, or tobacco.
Edmund Burke

We have used the Bible as if it were a mere special constable's handbook, an opium dose for keeping beasts of burden patient while they are overloaded.
Charles Kingsley