A cat can maintain a position of curled up somnolence on your knee until you are nearly upright. To the last minute she hopes your conscience will get the better of you and you will settle down again.
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A friend is the only person you will let into the house when you are Turning Out Drawers.
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A friendship can weather most things and thrive in thin soil; but it needs a little mulch of letters and phone calls and small, silly presents every so often - just to save it from drying out completely.
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For every person who has ever lived there has come, at last, a spring he will never see. Glory then in the springs that are yours.
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