Quote from 'American Citizen,' 1930

Bret Baier was on FoxNews yesterday to remember Tony Snow, the radio host, writer, and former White House press secretary who died of cancer yesterday morning. He quoted John Wayland to speak of the caliber of man Snow was, and I thought it was incredible:

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.

Not bad, huh? So what I want from you all now is to take that quote, absorb its message, and give me a 1,000-word essay on what it means to you by tomorrow morning. Godspeed.