
Moby Dick. Kapitel 26, Ritter und Knappen. online-literature.com http://www.online-literature.com/melville/mobydick/27/; übersetzt von Matthias Jendits. 6. Auflage, btb Verlag.
Original engl.: "Men may seem detestable as joint stock-companies and nations; knaves, fools, and murderers there may be; men may have mean and meagre faces; but, man, in the ideal, is so noble and so sparkling, such a grand and glowing creature, that over any ignominious blemish in him all his fellows should run to throw their costliest robes."