“A gentleman treats his fellow man with fairness, always giving him the benefit of the doubt.”

“This is the hard part about having best friends that I feel no attachment to -- I don't give them any benefit of the doubt. And being best friends is always about the benefit of the doubt.”

“A tramp, a gentleman, a poet, a dreamer, a lonely fellow, always hopeful of romance and adventure.”

“You can judge a man's true character by the way he treats his fellow animals.”

“A gentleman reading a poem that began withWhere is that man that never yet did hear
Of fair Penelope, Ulysses' queen?[Jonson] calling his cook, asked if he had ever heard of her, who answering "No," demonstrate to him Lo, there the man that never yet did hear
Of fair Penelope, Ulysses' queen.”

“Jefferson was not ashamed to call the black man his brother and to address him as a gentleman.”

“You can always tell how a man will treat his wife by the way he treats his mother.”

“There is no gentleman in America, but he who feels that every man is his equal in natural right, and who does not know that he is cheated if every man does not have fair play.”

“I am a sporting man. I always give them a fair chance to get away.”

“Wise men, when in doubt whether to speak or to keep quiet, give themselves the benefit of the doubt, and remain silent.”