"I would rather sit on a pumpkin, and have it all to myself, than be crowded on a velvet cushion."
"The more a person understands the truth of this world, the more they quietly drift away from the crowd."
"In every crowd are certain persons who seem just like the rest, yet they bear amazing messages."
"It's easy to stand in the crowd but it takes courage to stand alone"
"To lead an orchestra, you must turn your back on the crowd."
"The woman who follows the crowd will usually go no further than the crowd. The woman who walks alone is likely to find herself in places no one has ever been before."
"It is easy in the world to live after the world's opinion; it is easy in solitude to live after our own; but the great man is he who in the midst of the crowd keeps with perfect sweetness the independence of solitude."