Quotes from authors born in 1770
Recommend virtue to your children; it alone, not money, can make them happy. I speak from experience.
Ludwig van Beethoven
Music is a higher revelation than all wisdom and philosophy.
Ludwig van Beethoven
Only the pure in heart can make a good soup.
Ludwig van Beethoven
Music is the mediator between the spiritual and the sensual life.
Ludwig van Beethoven
This is the mark of a really admirable man: steadfastness in the face of trouble.
Ludwig van Beethoven
David Tudor 
Quentin Crisp 
James Branch Cabell 
Edward Felten 
Hank Ketcham 
Alfred Emanuel Smith 
Shigeru Yoshida 
Gene Robinson