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

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

Friendship with ones self is all important, because without it one cannot be friends with anyone else in the world.

Friends and good manners will carry you where money won't go.

Friendship is always a sweet responsibility, never an opportunity.

One's friends are that part of the human race with which one can be human.

True friendship ought never to conceal what it thinks.

Walking with a friend in the dark is better than walking alone in the light.

Accountability in friendship is the equivalent of love without strategy.

True friendship is like sound health the value of it is seldom known until it is lost.