“Alcohol, taken in sufficient quantities, may produce all the effects of drunkenness.”

Source: John Barleycorn (1913), Ch. V

Source: The Sense of an Ending

As cited in The Forbes Book of Business Quotations (2007), Ed. Goodwin, Black Dog Publishing, p. 49, ISBN 1579127215
Post-war years (1945–1955)
Variant: I have taken more out of alcohol than alcohol has taken out of me.

Source: A Wild Sheep Chase: A Novel (1982), Chapter 7: Before the Strange Man

1963, American University speech

The Substitution of Similars, The True Principles of Reasoning (1869)
Context: Aristotle's dictim... may then be formulated somewhat as follows:—Whatever is known of a term may be stated of its equal or equivalent. Or, in other words, Whatever is true of a thing is true of its like.... the value of the formula must be judged by its results;... it not only brings into harmony all the branches of logical doctrine, but... unites them in close analogy to the corresponding parts of mathematical method. All acts of mathematical reasoning may... be considered but as applications of a corresponding axiom of quantity...

Source: 1970s, Redesigning the future, 1974, p. 10.