He will be apt to be reproached with being eremitical, self-absorbed, unsociable, fastidious; but he must not care for that, because the essence of his work is to cultivate relations of sympathy with people whose faces he may never see, and he must save his talk, so to speak, for his books.
"The Silent Isle"
Arthur Christopher Benson
Herries is ascetic and eremitical-a beautiful thing in many ways; but there is no transmission of life in such art; it is a sterile thing after all, a seedless flower.
"At Large"
Arthur Christopher Benson
He who would dispute the great advantages derived directly from the social life of the students-to which belong not only different nations, but different faculties, especially in rapidly developing the intellect-would deny the advantages of social life altogether; but wo to the man who is disposed to act upon such a notion, and lead an eremitical life in accordance with it; such one-sidedness of judgment must inflict upon him the severest penalty.
"The Student-Life of Germany"
William Howitt