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

My best friend is the one who brings out the best in me.

A friend is someone who gives you total freedom to be yourself.

Friendship, like the immortality of the soul, is too good to be believed.

Nothing so fortifies a friendship as a belief on the part of one friend that he is superior to the other.

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

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

The sincere friends of this world are as ship lights in the stormiest of nights.

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

Be courteous to all, but intimate with few, and let those few be well tried before you give them your confidence.