“Lush and green is the willow in spring; plant it not in your garden. In friendship, bond not with a shallow man. Though the willow comes early into leaf, will it withstand the first winds of autumn? The shallow man is quick to make friends and as quick to part. Year after year, the willow brightens in spring, but a shallow man will not visit again.”

-Ueda Akinari, The Chrysanthemum Vow