Famous quotes containing the words upper and/or hermitage:
“All men live in suffering
I know as few can know,
Whether they take the upper road
Or stay content on the low....”
—William Butler Yeats (18651939)
“A hermitage in the forest is the refuge of the narrow-minded misanthrope; a hammock on the ocean is the asylum for the generous distressed.”
—Herman Melville (18191891)