A somewhat shy and hermitical being we take him to be, and more a student of his own heart than of men.
"The Function Of The Poet And Other Essays"
James Russell Lowell
5. It was then that I learnt the hermitical habit of speech acquired only by the most silent and suffering.
"Human, All-Too-Human, Part II"
Friedrich Nietzsche
In his "Society and Solitude" Emerson has drawn a picture of Hawthorne as the lover of a hermitical life; a picture only representing that side of his character, and developed after Emerson's fashion to an artistic extreme.
"The Life and Genius of Nathaniel Hawthorne"
Frank Preston Stearns