Angel Quote by Henry David Thoreau

The more unintelligent a man is, the less mysterious existence seems to him.

— Arthur Schopenhauer

The Devil is a spiritual lunatic, but, like many lunatics, he is extremely plausible and cunning.

— Dorothy L. Sayers

Where there is simplicity, there are a hundred Angels, but where there is cleverness - there are none.

— Ambrose of Optina

Every scholar, I presume, is not, necessarily, a man of sense.

— Samuel Richardson

A man is a golden impossibility. The line he must walk is a hair's breadth. The wise through excess of wisdom is made a…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

There's no one as transparent as the person who thinks he's devilish deep.

— W. Somerset Maugham

No man of sense in the whole world believes in devils any more than he does in mermaids, vampires, gorgons, hydras, naiads, dryads, nymphs,…

— Robert Green Ingersoll

For the greatest fool and rascal in creation there is yet a worse condition; and that is, not to know it, but to think…

— George MacDonald

It is the greatest art of the devil to convince us he does not exist.

— Charles Baudelaire

The practical man is the adventurer, the investigator, the believer in research, the asker of questions, the man who refuses to believe that perfection…

— Henry Harrower

One can ever assume to be what he is not, and to conceal what he is.

— Sallust

I have seen a thousand times that Angels are human form, or men, for I have conversed with them as man to man, sometimes…

— Emanuel Swedenborg