Marbury was one of the "midnight judges" whose commission, signed by Adams, had been withheld by Madison, on the theory that the powers of the former President to make appointments had really expired, not on the third of March, 1801, at midnight, but on the day his successor was elected.
— from Thomas Jefferson, the Apostle of Americanism by Gilbert Chinard

There are, then, two immortalities: the subjective immortality which a man accords himself readily, even necessarily, and the objective immortality, of which Pratinas has been robbed and which is a fact.
— from Decadence, and Other Essays on the Culture of Ideas by Remy de Gourmont