True Gentleman

“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.”

- John Walter Wayland 1899