Quotes from James Lendall Basford

'Tis easy to make friends among angels when you dwell high.

I stood upon an ocean's short, And viewed the silent deep; While 'neath the brightly beaming stars All nature lay asleep. As 'lone I paced that pebbly strand, And thought of those above, An angel seem'd to whisper me,— There's nothing true but love.

The grave is the gateway through which we are all borne home: the body by man, the soul by angels.

As fish seek the surface of the ocean for food, and man its depths for their mysteries, so does man rise to the realms of the angels for spiritual food, while the angels descend into the atmosphere of earth, exploring its wonders.

There are times in life when trouble brings us in such communion with nature that the rocks appear to be in sympathy with us, and the waving branches of the trees seem like angel hands fanning away our sorrows.