Time is man's angel. [ Friedrich Schiller ]

The glow of the angel in woman. [ Mrs. Balfour ]

Sweet sleep, with soft down
Weave thy brows an infant crown!
Sweet sleep, angel mild,
Hover over my happy child. [ William Blake ]

Perfect woman, nobly planned,
To warn, to comfort, and command;
And yet a spirit still, and bright
With something of an angel light. [ Wordsworth ]

An angel might have stoop'd to see.
And bless'd her for her purity. [ Dr. Mackay ]

Father! forgive the heart that clings
Thus trembling to the things of time,
And bid my soul, on angel's wings
Ascend into a purer clime. [ Jane Roscoe ]

Blue eyes shimmer with angel glances.
Like spring violets over the lea. [ Constance F. Woolson ]

A child is an angel dependent on man. [ Count de Maistre ]

Like angel visits, few and far between. [ Campbell ]

Responds -- as if with unseen wings,
An angel touched its quivering strings;
And whispers, in its song,
Where hast thou stayed so long? [ Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Endymion ]

Oh, if there is one thing above the rest
Written in Wisdom - if there is a word
That I would trace as with a pen of fire
Upon the unsullied temper of a child —
If there is anything that keeps the mind
Open to angel visits, and repels
The ministry of ill - It is Love. [ N. P. Willis ]

Her angel's face,
As the great eye of heaven shined bright,
And made a sunshine in the shady place. [ Spenser ]

The Present, the Present is all thou hast
For thy sure possessing;
Like the patriarch's angel hold it fast
Till it gives its blessing. [ Whittier ]

We cannot pass our guardian angel's bound,
Resign'd or sullen, he will hear our sighs. [ Keble ]

E'en like the passage of an angel's tear
That falls through the clear ether silently. [ Keats ]

A solitary man is either a brute or an angel. [ Proverb ]

O welcome, pure-eyed Faith, white-handed Hope.
Thou hovering angel, girt with golden wings. [ Milton ]

Sweet letters of the angel tongue,
I've loved ye long and well.
And never have failed in your fragrance sweet
To find some secret spell -
A charm that has bound me with witching power,
For mine is the old belief,
That midst your sweets and midst your bloom,
There's a soul in every leaf! [ M. M. Ballou ]

An angel face! its sunny wealth of hair,
In radiant ripples, bathed the graceful throat
And dimpled shoulders. [ Mrs. Osgood ]

A guardian angel over his life presiding.
Doubling his pleasures, and his cares dividing. [ Samuel Rogers ]

Look how the floor of heaven
Is thick inlaid with patines of bright gold;
There's not the smallest orb which thou behold'st
But in his motion like an angel sings,
Still quiring to the young-eyed cherubims. [ William Shakespeare, The Merchant of Venice ]

Two consorts in heaven are not two, but one angel. [ Swedenborg ]

By noting of the lady I have marked
A thousand blushing apparitions
To start into her face, a thousand innocent shames.
In angel whiteness bear away those blushes. [ William Shakespeare ]

One may understand like an angel and yet be a devil. [ Proverb ]

He raised a mortal to the skies; She drew an angel down. [ Dryden ]

Poetry has been the guardian angel of humanity in all ages. [ Lamartine ]

A crown in pocket does you more credit than an angel spent. [ Proverb ]

Though an angel should write, still 'tis devils must print. [ Moore ]

It would take an angel from above to paint the immortal soul. [ Mrs. Welby ]

The angel of the Lord encampeth round about them that fear Him. [ Bible ]

Her walk was like no mortal thing, but shaped after an angel's. [ Petrarch ]

Trust no friend without faults, and love a maiden, but no angel. [ Lessing ]

Oh, what may man within him hide, though angel on the outward side! [ William Shakespeare ]

Love is a familiar. Love is a devil. There is no evil angel but love. [ William Shakespeare ]

Resignation is the name of the angel who carries most of our soul's burdens, [ J. L. Basford ]

He who seeks repentance for the past, should woo the angel virtue for the future. [ Edward Bulwer-Lytton ]

Life is the jailer, death the angel sent to draw the unwilling bolts and set us free. [ Lowell ]

An angel's arm can't snatch me from the grave - legions of angels can't confine me there! [ Young ]

Love without esteem can not reach far, nor rise very high: it is an angel with but one wing. [ A. Dumas fils ]

Every evil deed already bears its own avenging angel, the dread of evil, in the heart of it. [ Friedrich Schiller ]

Rascal! That word on the lips of a woman, addressed to a too daring man, often means - angel!

The angel of Death has been abroad throughout the land; you may almost hear the beating of his wings. [ John Bright ]

The boundary of man is moderation. When once we pass that pale our guardian angel quits his charge of us. [ Feltham ]

The feather whence the pen was shaped that traced the lives of these good men, dropped from an angel's wing. [ Wordsworth ]

If there is anything that keeps the mind open to angel visits, and repels the ministry of ill, it is human love. [ Willis ]

Every man has a paradise around him till he sins, and the angel of an accusing conscience drives him from his Eden. [ Henry Wadsworth Longfellow ]

Misfortune is never mournful to the soul that accepts it; for such do always see that every cloud is an angel's face. [ St. Jerome ]

Poetry is enthusiasm with wings of fire; it is the angel of high thoughts, that inspires us with the power of sacrifice. [ Mazzini ]

Man is neither an angel nor a brute, and it is his evil destiny if he aspires to be the former, to sink into the latter. [ Pascal ]

If a man is not rising upward to be an angel, depend upon it, he is sinking downward to be a devil. He cannot stop at the beast [ Coleridge ]

To be impatient at the death of a person concerning whom it was certain he must die is to mourn because thy friend was not born an angel. [ Jeremy Taylor ]

Talents angel-bright, if wanting worth, are shining instruments in false ambition's hand, to finish faults illustrious, and give infamy renown. [ Young ]

There are women so hard to please that it seems as if nothing less than an angel will suit them: hence it comes that they often meet with devils. [ Marguerite de Valois ]

The guardian angel of life sometimes flies so high that man cannot see it; but he always is looking down upon us, and will soon hover nearer to us. [ Richter ]

The recording angel, consider it well, is no fable, but the truest of truths; the paper tablets thou canst burn; of the "iron leaf" there is no burning. [ Carlyle ]

There are women so hard to please that it would seem as if nothing less than an angel would suit them; and hence it comes that they often encounter devils. [ Marguerite de Valois ]

When a man dies, they who survive him ask what property he has left behind. The angel who bends over the dying man asks what good deeds he has sent before him. [ Koran ]

When Fame stands by us all alone, she is an angel clad in light and strength; but when Love touches her she drops her sword, and fades away, ghostlike and ashamed. [ Ouida ]

If human love hath power to penetrate the veil - and hath it not? - then there are yet living here a few who have the blessedness of knowing that an angel loves them. [ Hawthorne ]

Earth has one angel less, and heaven one more since yesterday. Already, kneeling at the throne, she has received her welcome, and is resting on the bosom of her Saviour. [ Hawthorne ]

Our brains are seventy-year clocks. The Angel of Life winds them up once for all, then closes the case, and gives the key into the hands of the Angel of the Resurrection. [ Oliver Wendell Holmes ]

Even sleep is characteristic. How beautiful are children in their lovely innocence! how angel-like their blooming features! and how painful and anxious is the sleep of the guilty! [ Wilhelm von Humboldt ]

A woman has two smiles that an angel might envy: the smile that accepts the lover before the words are uttered, and the smile that lights on the first-born baby, and assures it of a mother's love. [ Haliburton ]

The accusing spirit, which flew off to heaven's chancery with the oath blushed as he gave it in; and the recording angel, as he wrote it down, dropped a tear upon the word and blotted it out forever. [ Sterne ]

But the grave is not deep; it is the shining tread of an angel that seeks us. When the unknown hand throws the fatal dart at the end of man, then boweth he his head and the dart only lifts the crown of thorns from his wounds. [ Richter ]

There is a sweet anguish springing up in our bosoms when a child's face brightens under the shadow of the waiting angel. There is an autumnal fitness when age gives up the ghost; and when the saint dies there is a tearful victory. [ Chapin ]

When a child can be brought to tears, not from fear of punishment, but from repentance for his offence, he needs no chastisement. When the tears begin to flow from grief at one's own conduct, be sure there is an angel nestling in the bosom. [ Horace Mann ]

How oft my guardian angel gently cried, Soul, from thy casement look, and thou shalt see How he persists to knock and wait for thee! And, O! how often to that voice of sorrow, Tomorrow we will open, I replied. And when the morrow came I answered still, Tomorrow. [ Tome Burguillos ]

I see the spectacle of morning from the hilltop over against my house, from daybreak to sunrise, with emotions which an angel might share. The long slender bars of cloud float like fishes in the sea of crimson light. From the earth, as a shore, I look out into that silent sea. I seem to partake its rapid transformations; the active enchantment reaches my dust, and I dilate and conspire with the morning wind. [ Emerson ]

When we turn away from some duty or some fellow-creature, saying that our hearts are too sick and sore with some great yearning of our own, we may often sever the line on which a Divine message was coming to us. We shut out the man, and we shut out the angel who had sent him on to open the door . . . There is a plan working in our lives; and if we keep our hearts quiet and our eyes open, it all works together; and, if we don't, it all fights together, and goes on fighting till it comes right, somehow, somewhere. [ Annie Keary ]