Genius does not herd with genius. [ O. W. Holmes ]

Away, ye imitators, servile herd! [ Horace ]

But far more numerous was the herd of such,
Who think too little, and who talk too much. [ Dryden ]

The vulgar herd estimate friendship by Its advantages. [ Ovid ]

Man is an imitative creature, and whoever is foremost leads the herd. [ Schiller ]

Eagles we see fly alone; and they are but sheep which always herd together. [ Sir P. Sidney ]

Every generation laughs at the old fashions, but follows religiously the herd. [ Thoreau ]

The freedom of some is the freedom of the herd of swine that ran violently down a steep place into the sea and were drowned. [ Rev. W. Jay ]

It is adverse to talent to be consorted and trained up with inferior minds and inferior companions, however high they may rank. The foal of the racer neither finds out his speed nor calls out his powers if pastured out with the common herd, that are destined for the collar and the yoke. [ Colton ]

It is averse to talent to be consorted and trained up with inferior minds or inferior companions, however high they may rank. The foal of the racer neither finds out his speed, nor calls out his powers, if pastured out with the common herd, that are destined for the collar and the yoke. [ Colton ]