Men may seem detestable as joint stock...
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.Herman Melville, Moby Dick
