When Cromwell asked the Parliament for soldiers in lieu of the decayed serving-men and tapsters who filled the Commonwealth's army, he required that they should be men "who made some conscience of what they did;" and such were the men of which his celebrated regiment of "Ironsides" was composed.
The man of character is also reverential.

The possession of this quality marks the noblest, and highest type of manhood and womanhood: reverence for things consecrated by the homage of generations--for high objects, pure thoughts, and noble aims--for the great men of former times, and the highminded workers amongst our contemporaries.

Reverence is alike indispensable to the happiness of individuals, of families, and of nations.

Without it there can be no trust, no faith, no confidence, either in man or God--neither social peace nor social progress.

For reverence is but another word for religion, which binds men to each other, and all to God.
"The man of noble spirit," says Sir Thomas Overbury, "converts all occurrences into experience, between which experience and his reason there is marriage, and the issue are his actions.