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This is the final test of a gentleman: his respect for those who can be of no possible service to him.

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.

If the gentleman has ability, he is magnanimous, generous, tolerant, and straightforward, through which he opens the way to instruct others.

It is almost the definition of a gentleman to say that he is one who never inflicts pain.

A man has honor if he holds himself to an ideal of conduct though it is inconvenient, unprofitable, or dangerous to do so.

The people respect and believe in men who fulfill their duty.

Being a gentleman is a worthy goal.

The only infallible rule we know is, that the man who is always talking about being a gentleman never is one.

Gentlemen can now only behave as such, or be tolerated as such, in circumstances that are manifestly contrived or unreal.

Whence it is somewhat strange that any men from so mean and silly a practice should expect commendation, or that any should afford regard thereto; the which it is so far from meriting, that indeed contempt and abhorrence are due to it.