"The True Gentleman is the man whose conduct proceeds from good
will and an acute sense of propriety, whose self control is equal
to all emergencies, who does not make the poor man conscious of his
poverty, the obscure man of his obscurity, or any man of his inferiority
or deformity, who is himself humbled if necessity compels him to humble
another, who does not flatter wealth, cringe before power, or boast of
his own possesions or achievements, who speaks with frankness but always
with sincerity and sympathy, whose deed follows his word, who thinks of
the rights and feelings of others rather than his own, and who appears
well in any company, a man with whom honor is sacred and virtue safe."
-John Walter Wayland