"Do you know the name of the man who was with you in the hotel room when we
came crashing in?" "No, Chris, but his friend's name was Phillip." "What friend ?

We never exchange more than three words with a Friend in our lives on that level
... How often we find ourselves turning our backs on our actual Friends, that we ...

My Friend is that one whom I can associate with my choicest thought. I always
assign to him a nobler employment in my absence than I ever find him engaged
in; ...