RETIREMENT

Related Subjects: Concealment, Rest, Retreat, Solitude

1. He whom God bath gifted with the love of retirement, possesses, as it were, an extra sense.—BULWER-LYTTON
   

2. A foundation of good sense, and a cultivation of learning, are required to give a seasoning to retirement, and make us taste its blessings.—DRYDEN
   

3. Don't think of retiring from the world until the world will be sorry that you retire. I hate a fellow whom pride or cowardice or laziness drive into a corner, and who does nothing when he is there but sit and growl. Let him come out as I do, and bark.—SAMUEL JOHNSON
   

4. Let me caution persons grown old in active business, not lightly, nor without weighing their own resources, to forego their customary employment all at once, for there may be .danger in it.—CHARLES LAMB, The Superannuated Man
   

5. I could be well content
   To entertain the lag-end of my life
   With quiet hours.—SHAKESPEARE, Henry IV
   

6. To judge rightly of our own worth we should retire from the world so as to see both its pleasures and pains in their proper light and dimensions—thus taking the heart from off this world and its allurements, which so dishonor the understanding as to turn the wisest of men into fools and children.—STERNE