This you cannot do without temperance. Work is victory. All our progress is an unfolding, like a vegetable bud. You have first an instinct, then an opinion, then a knowledge as the plant has root, bud, and fruit. Trust the instinct to the end. though you can render no reason.
Proverbs are the literature of reason, or the statements of absolute truth, without qualification.
Like the sacred books of each nation, they are the sanctuary of its intuitions. The adventitious beauty of poetry may be felt in the greater delight with a verse given in a happy quotation than in the poem. The next thing to saying a good thing yourself, is to quote one. You cannot do wrong without suffering wrong. Man was born to be rich, or grow rich by use of his faculties, by the union of thought with nature.