As by magic he becomes talkative, polite, generous.

After the callers have gone, his little girl begs her father to keep on his "company manners" for a little while, but the sullen mood returns and his courtesy vanishes as quickly as it came.

He is the same disagreeable, contemptible, crabbed bear as before the arrival of his guests.
What friend of the great Dr.Johnson did not feel mortified and pained to see him eat like an Esquimau, and to hear him call men "liars" because they did not agree with him?
He was called the "Ursa Major," or Great Bear.
Benjamin Rush said that when Goldsmith at a banquet in London asked a question about "the American Indians," Dr.Johnson exclaimed: "There is not an Indian in North America foolish enough to ask such a question." "Sir," replied Goldsmith, "there is not a savage in America rude enough to make such a speech to a gentleman." After Stephen A.Douglas had been abused in the Senate he rose and said: "What no gentleman should say no gentleman need answer." Aristotle thus described a real gentleman more than two thousand years ago: "The magnanimous man will behave with moderation under both good fortune and bad.

He will not allow himself to be exalted; he will not allow himself to be abased.

He will neither be delighted with success, nor grieved with failure.