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.