Virtue Alone
Recommend Virtue to your children; that alone, and not wealth, can ensure happiness. I speak…
Ludwig van Beethoven
The Ranks of Estimable Artists and Men
God looks into my heart, He searches it, and knows that love for man and…
To Countess Giulietta Guicciardi
Morning, July 6, 1800.
MY ANGEL! MY ALL! MY SECOND SELF!
Only a few words…
To My Brothers Carl and Johann Beethoven
Heiligenstadt, Oct. 6, 1802.
Oh! ye who think or declare me to be hostile, morose,…
I Still Heard Nothing!
What humiliation when any one beside me heard a flute in the far distance, while…
I Shall Meet Him With Courage
I joyfully hasten to meet Death. If he comes before I have had the opportunity…
I Am Deaf!
Born with a passionate and excitable temperament, keenly susceptible to the pleasures of society, I…