Shall I, like an hermit, dwell
On a rock or in a cell? [ Sir Walter Raleigh ]

The world was sad! - the garden was a wild!
And man, the hermit, sighed - till woman smiled. [ Campbell ]

The hermit thinks the sun shines no where but in his cell. [ Proverb ]

To succeed as a lawyer, a man must work like a horse and live like a hermit. [ Lord Eldon ]

A withered hermit, fivescore winters worn, might shake off fifty, looking in her eye. [ William Shakespeare ]

A hermit who has been shut up in his cell in a college has contracted a sort of mould and rust upon his soul. [ Dr. Watts ]