If the gentleman has ability, he is magnanimous, generous, tolerant, and straightforward, through which he opens the way to instruct others.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
A gentleman is one who puts more into the world than he takes out.
I think a gentleman is someone who holds the comfort of other people above their own. The instinct to do that is inside every good man, I believe. The rules about opening doors and buying dinner and all of that other 'gentleman' stuff is a chess game, especially these days.
Many men have been capable of doing a wise thing, more a cunning thing, but very few a generous thing.
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.
Being a gentleman is a worthy goal.
The man who practises unselfishness, who is genuinely interested in the welfare of others, who feels it a privilege to have the power to do a fellow-creature a kindness - even though polished manners and a gracious presence may be absent - will be an elevating influence wherever he goes.
The final test of a gentleman is his respect for those who can be of no possible service to him.
This is the final test of a gentleman: his respect for those who can be of no possible service to him.
Men must necessarily be the active agents of their own well-being and well-doing they themselves must in the very nature of things be their own best helpers.
A great man is different from an eminent one in that he is ready to be the servant of the society.
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