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.

There is nothing on this earth more to be prized than true friendship.

Real friendship, like real poetry, is extremely rare - and precious as a pearl.

Fear makes strangers of people who would be friends.

The greatest sweetener of human life is Friendship. To raise this to the highest pitch of enjoyment, is a secret which but few discover.

Silences make the real conversations between friends. Not the saying but the never needing to say is what counts.

Friends... they cherish one another's hopes. They are kind to one another's dreams.

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

Nothing but heaven itself is better than a friend who is really a friend.