The gift of friendship

The Gift of Friendship is something we are given to be caretakers of, to nurture and enrich. But we don't own it. We cannot keep it in a box like a gold necklace or on a shelf like a fragile vase, only to be taken down and admired on special occasions. Our friendships deserve so much more.
George Berkeley — known as Bishop Berkeley — was an Irish philosopher whose primary achievement was the advancement of a theory he called “immaterialism”.