Quote by Augustine of Hippo

“They saw him as he was, a full man whose griefs and solaces and talents ran together.”

— Joshua Wolf Shenk

“It was not only that he was a great man, but, oh, there was such fun in being led by him.”

— Edward Renehan

“But he was one of those people. One of those people who became more beautiful with each moment they were in your company. The…

— Megan Bryce

“the great man is he who in the midst of the crowd keeps with perfect sweetness the independence of solitude.”

— Bruce Bryans

“He was one of those people who would be neither a follower nor a leader, but only an aspiring heart, impatient in the failing…

— T.H. White

“The group was led by a very thin man whom the sheep didn't know. They looked hard at him. The leader of the flock…

— Leonie Swann

“The man who follows the crowd will usually get no further than the crowd. The man who walks alone is likely to find himself…

— Alan Ashley-Pitt

“Tall, impressive, separate from the crowd, a ruler; and yet he looks alone and abandoned. I remember what he told me a long time…

— Georgia Le Carre

“He made so many people uneasy. Everyone was always very friendly toward him, and no one was ever very nice; everyone spoke to him,…

— Joseph Heller

“There were so many people in the world who wasted their aliveness, who hung back when they should reach out, who sat out when…

— Jessie Evans

“...it occurred to me that perhaps in this city the crowd was essential to the individual; without it, he had nothing against which to…

— Don DeLillo

“There, on the corner, stood a thick crowd of people, all of them peasants. He made his way into the very thick of them,…

— Fyodor Dostoyevsky