Friendship needs no words - it is solitude delivered from the anguish of loneliness.

One of the most beautiful qualities of true friendship is to understand and to be understood.

He has no enemies, but is intensely disliked by his friends.

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

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

Men kick friendship around like a football, but it doesn't seem to crack. Women treat it like glass and it goes to pieces.

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

Never explain - your friends do not need it and your enemies will not believe you anyway.

A true friend is the greatest of all blessings, and that which we take the least care of all to acquire.

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