Happy Father's Day from the Love BDD Foundation
The True Gentleman
by
John Walter Wayland
(Virginia, 1899)
"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."
