~Acquirements.~--Every noble acquisition is attended with its risks: he
who fears to encounter the one must not expect to obtain the
other.--_Metastasio._
~Action.~--Action can have no effect upon reasonable minds. It may augment
noise, but it never can enforce argument. If you speak to a dog, you use
action; you hold up your hand thus, because he is a brute; and in
proportion as men are removed from brutes, action will have the less
influence upon them.--_Johnson._