Certainly, friends are sufficiently rare not to be neglected; they are life's best comforters. See image Eugenie de Guerin
How long time is when one is sad! Is it three years or three days since you went away? See image Eugenie de Guerin
One has so much time for thought in the country! However occupied one may be, 'tis with nothing that engrosses the mind, which works away on its own account like a mill-wheel. See image Eugenie de Guerin