I've been looking over D. C. Lau's introductory discussions in his translation of,
The Analects, of Confucius (Penguin, 1979), and I see what Peter is talking about; Confucius has a great deal of discussion of the "gentleman": eighty or so chapters, Lau says. A rather large lump of text..., but I'll put it on the reading list; I've been needing to get around to it, anyway.