By the by, if the English race had done nothing else, yet if they left the world the notion of a gentleman, they would have done a great service to mankind.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
The Englishman wants to be recognized as a gentleman, or as some other suitable species of human being, the American wants to be considered a good guy.
The final test of a gentleman is his respect for those who can be of no possible service to him.
But there were women in the world, and from them each of our heroes had taken to himself a wife. The good ladies were no strangers to the prowess of their husbands. and, strange as it may seem, they presumed a little upon it.
The only principles of public conduct that are worthy of a gentleman or a man are to sacrifice estate, ease, health, and applause, and even life, to the sacred calls of his country.
This is the final test of a gentleman: his respect for those who can be of no possible service to him.
Anyone can be heroic from time to time, but a gentleman is something you have to be all the time.
A gentleman is one who puts more into the world than he takes out.
And though it is much to be a nobleman, it is more to be a gentleman.
All I want is a gentleman. I'm sick to bloody death of bastards.
The only infallible rule we know is, that the man who is always talking about being a gentleman never is one.