To be independent of public opinion is the first formal condition of achieving anything great or rational whether in life or in science.
The world is always satisfied, it turns out, with a countenance it can understand. Indolence and cowardice do the rest. Independence is earned by a few words of cheap confidence.
The beauty of independence, departure, actions that rely on themselves.
I am no bird; and no net ensnares me: I am a free human being with an independent will.
A craving for freedom and independence is generated only in a man still living on hope.