Jokes aside, let us turn to serious matters.
No man ever reached to excellence in any one art or profession without having passed through the slow and painful process of study and preparation.
Doctrina sed vim promovet insitam. Instruction enlarges the natural powers of the mind.
Friends fly away when the cask has been drained to the dregs.
Wisdom at times is found in folly.
Not gods, nor men, nor even booksellers have put up with poets' being second-rate.