Members of orchestra disappear, lights extinguished, brown-holland coverings descend, the fireman enters, the box-keepers retire, and suddenly it bursts upon the inexperienced Opera-goer that it's all over, except shouting for carriages, and that's over too by now, and that there is to be no more Opera to-night.
— from Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 98, June 21 1890 by Various

It was but a holy moral ordinance of daily life, existing since the beginning of the world and among those who were not Christians as well as those who were.
— from Life of Luther by Julius Köstlin