The least thing upset him on the links. He missed short putts because of the uproar of the butterflies in the adjoining meadows.

the supply of the milk of human kindness was short by several gallons

Work, the what's-its-name of the thingummy and the thing-um-a-bob of the what d'you-call-it.

Warm-hearted! I should think he has to wear asbestos vests!

New York is a small place when it comes to the part of it that wakes up just as the rest is going to bed.

[He] saw that a peculiar expression had come into his nephew's face; an expression a little like that of a young hindu fakir who having settled himself on his first bed of spikes is beginning to wish that he had chosen one of the easier religions.

He looks much more like a lobster than most lobsters do.