There is a 'promise to pay' in their very faces which gives confidence, and you prefer it to another man's indorsement." _Character is credit._ In the great monetary panic of 1857, a meeting was called of the various bank presidents of New York City.

When asked what percentage of specie had been drawn during the day, some replied fifty per cent., some even as high as seventy-five per cent., but Moses Taylor of the City Bank said: "We had in the bank this morning, $400,000; this evening, $470,000." While other banks were badly "run," the confidence in the City Bank under Mr.Taylor's management was such that people had deposited in that institution what they had drawn from other banks.
Character gives confidence.
"There is no such thing as a small country," said Victor Hugo.

"The greatness of a people is no more affected by the number of its inhabitants than the greatness of an individual is measured by his height." "It is the nature of party in England," said John Russell, "to ask the assistance of men of genius, but to follow the guidance of men of character." "A handful of good life," says George Herbert, "is worth a bushel of learning." "I have read," Emerson says, "that they who listened to Lord Chatham felt that there was something finer in the man than anything which he said." It has been complained of Carlyle that when he has told all his facts about Mirabeau they do not justify his estimate of the latter's genius.

The Gracchi, Agis, Cleomenes, and others of Plutarch's heroes do not in the record of facts equal their own fame.

Sir Philip Sidney and Sir Walter Raleigh are men of great figure and of few deeds.