No arguments will give courage to the coward

A Young Fawn once said to his mother, "You are larger, swifter, and stronger than a dog, and more used to running, and you have too your horns as a defence; why, then, O Mother! are you always in such a terrible fright of the hounds?" 

She smiled and said:" I know very well, my son, that all you say is true. I have the advantages you mention, but yet when I hear only the bark of.a single dog I feel ready to faint, and fly as away as fast as I can."