Angels may be very excellent sort of folk in their own way, but we, poor mortals in our present state, would probably find them precious slow company.
Source: Idle Thoughts of an Idle Fellow, On Vanity and Vanities (1889).
-- Jerome K Jerome, (May 2 1859-1927), English author; His warm, unsatirical, and unintellectual humour won him wide following, e.g., Three Men in a Boat, 1889.