People may live as much retired from the world as they like, but sooner or later they find themselves debtor or creditor to some one.

Love prefers twilight to daylight.

Retirement may be looked upon either as a prolonged holiday or as a rejection, a being thrown on to the scrap-heap.

A person can stand almost anything except a succession of ordinary days.

A man is known by the company that keeps him on after retirement age.

I feel nothing but the accursed happiness I have dreaded all my life long: the happiness that comes as life goes, the happiness of yielding and dreaming instead of resisting and doing, the sweetness of the fruit that is going rotten.

Lord Tyrawley and I have been dead these two years, but we don't choose to have it known.

The best time to start thinking about your retirement is before the boss does.

The worst of work nowadays is what happens to people when they cease to work.

I advise you to go on living solely to enrage those who are paying your annuities. It is the only pleasure I have left.