本·琼森笔记：
我们就这样观赏这些漂亮的东西！就像孩子们珍视每一件小玩意儿，并把市集上的礼物看得比父亲还重要。我们和他们之间有什么不同，不就是我们是更昂贵的傻瓜，更高级的蠢货吗？孩子们对贝壳、哨子、木马之类的东西感到高兴；而我们则对雕像、大理石柱子、宏伟的布景、镀金的屋顶感到高兴，尽管这一切底下可能是抹了石灰的劣质木条，或者粪土。
What pretty things they are we wonder at! Like children that esteem every trifle and prefer a fairing before their fathers. What difference is between us and them but that we are dearer fools, coxcombs at a higher rate? They are pleased with cockleshell, whistles, hobby-horses, and such like; we with statues, marble pillars, pictures, gilded roofs where underneath is lathe and lime, perhaps loam.