What others effect by talent or eloquence, the man of character accomplishes by some magnetism.

"Half his strength he puts not forth." His victories are by demonstration of superiority, and not by crossing bayonets.

He conquers, because his arrival alters the face of affairs.

"O Iole! how didst thou know that Hercules was a god ?" "Because," answered Iole, "I was content the moment my eyes fell on him.

When I beheld Theseus, I desired that I might see him offer battle, or at least drive his horses in the chariot-race; but Hercules did not wait for a contest; he conquered whether he stood, or walked, or sat, or whatever else he did." "Show me," said Omar the Caliph to Amru the warrior, "the sword with which you have fought so many battles and slain so many infidels." "Ah," replied Amru, "the sword without the arm of the master is no sharper nor heavier than the sword of Farezdak the poet." So one hundred and fifty pounds of flesh and blood without character is of no great value.
"No man throws away his vote," says Francis Willard, "when he places it in the ballot-box with his conviction behind it.