# Drink Only Water for your purity. I'm also doing it. It makes me really frugal. Ancient Greek philosophers usually did it often with vegetarianism. Also, since Greek philosophy heavily influenced Thoreau, you can find it on Walden too. > I am glad to have drunk water so long, for the same reason that > I prefer the natural sky to an opium-eater's heaven. I would fain > keep sober always; and there are infinite degrees of drunkenness. > I believe that water is the only drink for a wise man; wine is > not so noble a liquor; and think of dashing the hopes of a morning > with a cup of warm coffee, or of an evening with a dish of tea! > Ah, how low I fall when I am tempted by them! > > Henry David Thoreau, "Walden"