To dwellers in a wood, almost every species of tree has its voice as well as its feature. - Thomas Hardy

Many besides Angel have learnt that the magnitude of lives is not as to their external displacements but as to their subjective experiences.

Let there be truth at last,/ Even if despair.

George's son had done his work so thoroughly that he was considered too good a workman to live, and was, in fact, taken and tragically shot at twelve o'clock that same day — another instance of the untoward fate which so often attends dogs and other philosophers who follow out a train of reasoning to its logical conclusion, and attempt perfectly consistent conduct in a world made up so largely of compromise.