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

Some people go to priests others to poetry I to my friends.

There is some self-interest behind every friendship. There is no friendship without self-interests. This is a bitter truth.

Friendship improves happiness and abates misery, by the doubling of our joy and the dividing of our grief.

When the world is so complicated, the simple gift of friendship is within all of our hands.

Friendship... is not something you learn in school. But if you haven't learned the meaning of friendship, you really haven't learned anything.

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

A quarrel between friends, when made up, adds a new tie to friendship.

My best friend is the man who in wishing me well wishes it for my sake.

Wishing to be friends is quick work, but friendship is a slow ripening fruit.