He had everything to compel the admiration and submission of his fellow-men:-- "The front of Jove himself; An eye like Mars to threaten and command; A station like the herald Mercury New-lighted on a heaven-kissing hill; A combination and a form indeed, Where every god did seem to set his seal, To give the world assurance of a man." Hamlet's words are a perfect picture of Mr.Webster's outer man, and we have but to add to the description a voice of singular beauty and power with the tone and compass of an organ.

The look of his face and the sound of his voice were in themselves as eloquent as anything Mr.Webster ever uttered.
But the imposing presence was only the outward sign of the man.

Within was a massive and powerful intellect, not creative or ingenious, but with a wonderful vigor of grasp, capacious, penetrating, far-reaching.

Mr.
Webster's strongest and most characteristic mental qualities were weight and force.

He was peculiarly fitted to deal with large subjects in a large way.