Caring for but never trying to own may be a further way to define friendship.
FRIENDSHIP, FURTHER WAY TO DEFINE FRIENDS
Be courteous to all, but intimate with few, and let those few be well tried before you give them your confidence.
intimate, courteous, friendship
Friendship is always a sweet responsibility, never an opportunity.
friendship, sweet responsibility, an opprtunity
Friendship, like the immortality of the soul, is too good to be believed.
FRIENDSHIP, TOO GOOD TO BE BELIEVED
But friendship is precious, not only in the shade, but in the sunshine of life, and thanks to a benevolent arrangement the greater part of life is sunshine.
A single rose can be my garden... a single friend, my world.
A single rose can be my garden
Nothing so fortifies a friendship as a belief on the part of one friend that he is superior to the other.
FRIENDSHIP, ONE FRIEND THAT HE IS SUPERIOR TO OTHER
True friendship ought never to conceal what it thinks.
friendship, thinks, ought never, conceal
