sentiments bring only wounds to me. Well,
so be it; for you, poor Beethoven, there is no outward happiness; you
must create it within you,--only in the world of ideality shall you find
friends."

(About 1808, to Baron von Gleichenstein, by whom he thought himself
slighted.)

245. "You are living on a quiet sea, or already in the safe harbor; you
do not feel the distress of a friend out in the raging storm,--or you
must not feel it."

(In 1811, to his friend Gleichenstein, when Beethoven was in love with
the Baron's sister-in-law, Therese Malfatti.)

246. "I must have a confidant at my side lest life become a burden."

(July 4, 1812, to Count Brunswick, whom he is urging to make a tour with
him, probably to Teplitz.)

247. "Your love makes me at once the happiest and the unhappiest of men.
At my age I need a certain uniformity and equableness of life; can such
exist in our relationship?"

(June 7, 1800 (?), to the "Immortal Beloved.")

248. "O Providence! vouchsafe me one day of pure joy! Long has the echo
of perfect felicity been absent from my heart. When O, when, O Thou
Divine One, shall I feel it again in nature's temple and man's? Never?
Ah! that would be too hard!"

(Conclusion of the Heiligenstadt Will.)

WORLDLY WISDOM

249. "Freedom,--progress, is purpose in the art-world as in universal
creation, and if we moderns have not the hardihood of our ancestors,
refinement of manners has surely accomplished something."

(Middling, July 29, 1819, to Archduke Rudolph.)

250. "The boundaries are not yet fixed which shall call out to talent
and industry: thus far and no further!"

(Reported by Schindler.)

251. "You know that the sensitive spirit must not be bound to miserable
necessities."

(In the summer of 1814, to Johann Kauka, the advocate who represented
him in the prosecution of his claims against the heirs of Prince
Kinsky.)

252. "Art, the persecuted one, always finds an asylum. Did not Daedalus,
shut up in the labyrinth, invent the wings which carried him out into
the open air? O, I shall find them, too, these wings!"

(February 19, 1812, to Zmeskall, when, in 1811, by decree of the
Treasury, the value of the Austrian currency was depreciated one-fifth,
and the annuity which Beethoven received from Archduke Rudolph and the
Princes Lobkowitz and Kinsky reduced to 800 florins.)

253. "Show me the