You have the nature of the tree to reckon with.

You may train a willow-tree all you like but you will never make it an oak or an ash.

Here is Harry who has been trained for a cotton-spinner turns back on us and says he will be an artist or a singer, and what can we do about it?
It is past curing or altering now." But though the late owner of Hatton Mill had left the clearest instructions concerning its relation to his two sons, the matter was not easily settled.

He had tied both of them so clearly down to his will in the matter that it was found impossible to alter a tittle of his directions.

Practically it amounted to a just division of whatever the mill had made after the tithe for charities had been first deducted.