"The True Gentleman is the man whose conduct proceeds from
good will and an acute sense of propriety, and 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 possessions 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."
- Sir John Walter Wayland
