how to keep the insects off the blossoms."

Beethoven's views on musical education are to be found in the
chapters "On Composition" and "On Performing Music."



149. "Like the State, each man must have his own constitution."

(Diary, 1815.)

150. "Recommend virtue to your children; that, alone can bring
happiness; not wealth,--I speak from experience. It was virtue
alone that bore me up in my misery; to her and my art I owe that
I did not end my life by self-murder."

(October 6, 1802, to his brothers Karl and Johann [the so-called
Heiligenstadt Will].)

151. "I know no more sacred duty than to rear and educate a
child."

(January 7, 1820, in a communication to the Court of Appeals in
the suit touching the guardianship of his nephew Karl.)

152. "Nature's weaknesses are nature's endowments; reason, the
guide, must seek to lead and lessen them."

(Diary, 1817.)