There is about him something that seems to soothe and hypnotize. To the best of my knowledge, he has never encountered a charging rhinoceros, but should this contingency occur, I have no doubt that the animal, meeting his eye, would check itself in mid-stride, roll over and lie purring with its legs in the air.

I charged into something which might have been a tree, but was not--being, in point of fact, Jeeves.

It is never difficult to distinguish between a Scotsman with a grievance and a ray of sunshine.

If the prophet Job were to walk into the room at this moment, I could sit swapping hard-luck stories with him till bedtime.'

My method is to take the utmost trouble to find the right thing to say, and then to say it with the utmost levity.

You fill me with inertia.

Every man is the center of a circle, whose fatal circumference he can not pass.