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

The language of friendship is not words but meanings.

Each friend represents a world in us, a world not born until they arrive, and it is only by this meeting that a new world is born.

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

Friendship is the source of the greatest pleasures, and without friends even the most agreeable pursuits become tedious.

Never make friends with people who are above or below you in status. Such friendships will never give you any happiness.

A friendship founded on business is better than a business founded on friendship.

It is only the great hearted who can be true friends. The mean and cowardly, Can never know what true friendship means.

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

That friendship will not continue to the end which is begun for an end.