Caring for but never trying to own may be a further way to define friendship.

Be slow to fall into friendship but when thou art in, continue firm and constant.

A single rose can be my garden... a single friend, my world.

If you have one true friend you have more than your share.

Our friends interpret the world and ourselves to us, if we take them tenderly and truly.

A man cannot be said to succeed in this life who does not satisfy one friend.

Men kick friendship around like a football, but it doesn't seem to crack. Women treat it like glass and it goes to pieces.

Friendship is certainly the finest balm for the pangs of disappointed love.

There are no rules for friendship. It must be left to itself. We cannot force it any more than love.

It is more shameful to distrust our friends than to be deceived by them.