Zeal for the public good is the characteristic of a man of honor and a gentleman, and must take the place of pleasures, profits and all other private gratification.
Source: In The Ultimate Success Quotations Library, 1997.
-- Richard Steele, (Mar 12 1672-1729), English essayist, dramatist; He started the Tatler, the first periodical which became so characteristic a literary feature of that age.