Caring for but never trying to own may be a further way to define friendship.
FRIENDSHIP, FURTHER WAY TO DEFINE FRIENDS
True friendship can afford true knowledge. It does not depend on darkness and ignorance.
Friendship improves happiness and abates misery, by the doubling of our joy and the dividing of our grief.
FRIENDSHIP, FRIENDSHIP IMPROVES HAPPINESS
Friendship is a plant of slow growth and must undergo and withstand the shocks of adversity before it is entitled to the appellation.
I have friends in overalls whose friendship I would not swap for the favor of the kings of the world.
There is some self-interest behind every friendship. There is no friendship without self-interests. This is a bitter truth.
self interest, bitter truth, friendship
Friendship needs no words - it is solitude delivered from the anguish of loneliness.
Don't walk behind me I may not lead. Don't walk in front of me I may not follow. Just walk beside me and be my friend.