Quote by Josh Billings

Man was created a little lower than the angels and has been getting a little lower ever since.

— Josh Billings

If man is only a little lower than the angels, the angels should reform.

— Mary Wilson Little

Higher than the beasts, lower than the angels, stuck in our idiot Eden.

— Ford Madox Ford

The man form is higher than the angel form; of all forms it is the highest. Man is the highest being in creation, because…

— Paramahansa Yogananda

The devil is a very big angel, but a very little man.

— Gregory Maguire

Angels are spirits, flames of fire; they are higher than man, they have wider connections.

— Matthew Simpson

And what's above is in the past As sure as all the angels are.

— Wallace Stevens

If a man is not rising upwards to be an angel, depend upon it, he is sinking downwards to be a devil . He…

— Samuel Taylor Coleridge

The history of man is essentially zoological; it becomes human late in the day, and then only in the beautiful souls, the souls alive…

— Henri Frederic Amiel

Angels possess greater powers than do human beings.

— Walter Lang

Men are not angels, neither are they brutes.

— Robert Browning

If a man is not rising upward to be an angel, depend on it, he is sinking downward to be a devil.

— Samuel Taylor Coleridge