To know what you like is the beginning of wisdom and of old age.
Youth is wholly experimental.
The essence and charm of that unquiet and delightful epoch is ignorance of self as well as ignorance of life. If he be a youth of dainty senses or a brain easily heated, the interest of this series of experiments grows upon him out of all proportion to the pleasure he receives. For the temptation is perhaps nearly as common as the vocation is rare. The book, the statue, the sonata, must be gone upon with the unreasoning good faith and the unflagging spirit of children at their play. Enough, just now, if you can look back over a fair interval, and see that your chosen art has a little more than held its own among the thronging interests of youth.