We shall find peace. We shall hear the angels. We shall see the sky sparkling with diamonds.
- Anton Chekhov

Now, good angels
Fly o’er thy royal head, and shade they person
Under their blessed wings!
- William Shakespeare ,”Henry VIII”

So extraordinary is Nature with her choicest treasures, spending plant beauty as she spends sunshine, pouring it forth into land and sea, garden and desert. And so the beauty of lilies falls on angels and men, bears and squirrels, wolves and sheep, birds and bees….
- John Muir

The angels love our tears… Leaving, they dry our face with the brush of a wing, never seeing it pure… already far away from us.
- Rainer Maria Rilke

But all lost things are in the angels’ keeping, Love; No past is dead for us, but only sleeping, Love; The years of Heaven with all earth’s little pain Make Good Together there we can begin again, In babyhood.
- Helen Hunt Jackson (1830-1885) US writer

What is government itself but the greatest of all reflections on human nature? If men were angels, no government would be necessary. If angels were to govern men, neither external nor internal controls on government would be necessary.
- James Madison, 4th U.S. President (1751-1836)