Hermit

Famous quotes containing the word hermit:

“The mind can weave itself warmly in the cocoon of its own thoughts, and dwell a hermit anywhere.”
—James Russell Lowell (1819–1891)

“The thoughtful man becomes a hermit in the thoroughfares of the marketplace.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)

“Mankind have such a deep stake in inward illumination, that there is much to be said by the hermit or monk in defence of his life of thought and prayer.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)