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

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

Let us be grateful to people who make us happy, they are the charming gardeners who make our souls blossom.

Friendship is a strong and habitual inclination in two persons to promote the good and happiness of one another.

Think where man's glory most begins and ends, and say my glory was I had such friends.

Never contract friendship with a man that is not better than thyself.

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

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

No person is your friend who demands your silence, or denies your right to grow.

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