Orang-orang sangat konyol dengan ilusi mereka, membawa topi bodoh mereka tanpa disadari, mengira kebohongan mereka sendiri buram sementara orang lain transparan, membuat diri mereka pengecualian untuk segalanya, seolah-olah ketika seluruh dunia tampak kuning di bawah lampu, mereka sendirilah yang kemerahan. Asli: People are so ridiculous with their illusions, carrying their fool's caps unawares, thinking their own lies opaque while everybody else's are transparent, making themselves exceptions to everything, as if when all the world looked yellow under a lamp they alone are rosy.

— George Eliot