Old saws have no teeth.
To want to be what one can be is purpose in life.
I wanted to use what I was, to be what I was born to be - not to have a 'career', but to be that straightforward obvious unmistakable animal, a writer.
Life is that which - pressingly, persistently, unfailingly, imperially - interrupts.
It isn't the instrument that influences High-Minded or Low-Minded; it's the quality of Mind itself.
Real apprenticeship is ultimately always to the self.