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 does 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