Milk and Honey

On my trip to New York City a couple months ago I visited a speakeasy called Milk and Honey on the lower east side. The place had some epic Prohibition cocktails and this message in the men's bathroom:

It reads:

Recalling
certain gentlemen of other days,
who made of drinking
one of the pleasures of life,
not one of its evils;
and who,
whatever they drank,
proved able to carry it,
keep their heads
and remain gentlemen,
even in their cups.
Their example is commended
to their posterity.