It is a good rule in life never to apologize. The right sort of people do not want apologies, and the wrong sort take a mean advantage of them.

(The Code of the Woosters in the novel of the same name is "Never let a pal down. His father Henry Ernest Wodehouse (1845–1929) was a British judge in Hong Kong. "Bertie Changes his Mind" Right Ho Jeeves) or by convincing him to sacrifice himself.

He is in the Songwriters Hall of Fame. He worked with Cole Porter on the musical Anything Goes (1934) wrote the lyrics for the hit song "Bill" in Kern's Show Boat (1927) wrote lyrics to Sigmund Romberg's music for the Gershwin – Romberg musical Rosalie (1928) and collaborated with Rudolf Friml on a musical version of The Three Musketeers (1928).