"I wonder what pleasure men can take in making beasts of themselves." "I wonder, Madam," replied the Doctor, "that you have not penetration to see the strong inducement to this excess; for he who makes a beast of himself gets rid of the pain of being a man."

Anecdotes of the Revd. Percival Stockdale;
collected in "Johnsonian Miscellanies," edited by G.B. Hill.