in after
time."--Homer.

("The Iliad" [Bryant's translation], Book XXII, 375-378.)

(Copied into his Diary, 1815.)

307. "Fate gave man the courage of endurance."

(Diary, 1814.)

308.

"Portia--How far that little candle throws his beams!
So shines a good deed in a naughty world."

(Marked in his copy of Shakespeare's "Merchant of Venice.")

309.

"And on the day that one becomes a
slave,
The Thunderer, Jove, takes half his
worth away."--Homer.

("The Odyssey" [Bryant's translation], Book XVII, 392-393. Marked by
Beethoven.)

310.

"Short is the life of man, and whoso
bears
A cruel heart, devising cruel things,
On him men call down evil from the
gods
While living, and pursue him, when he
dies,
With scoffs. But whoso is of generous
heart
And harbors generous aims, his guests
proclaim
His praises far and wide to all
mankind,
And numberless are they who call him
good."--Homer.

("The Odyssey" [Bryant's translation], Book XIX, 408-415. Copied into
his diary, 1818.)

GOD

Beethoven was through and through a religious man, though not in the
confessional sense. Reared in the Catholic faith he early attained to an
independent opinion on religious things. It must be borne in mind that
his youth fell in the period of enlightenment and rationalism. When at
a later date he composed the grand Mass in honor of his esteemed pupil
Archduke Rudolph,--he hoped to obtain from him a chapelmastership when
the Archduke became Archbishop of Olmutz, but in vain,--he gave it forms
and dimensions which deviated from the ritual.

In all things liberty was the fundamental principle of Beethoven's life.
His favorite book was Sturm's "Observations Concerning God's Works in
Nature" (Betrachtungen uber die Werke Gottes in der Natur), which he
recommended to the priests for wide distribution among the people. He
saw the hand of God in even the most insignificant natural phenomenon.
God was to him the Supreme Being whom he had jubilantly hymned in
the choral portion of the Ninth Symphony in the words of Schiller:
"Brothers, beyond you starry canopy there must dwell a loving Father!"
Beethoven's relationship to God was that of a child toward his loving
father to whom he confides all his joys as well as sorrows.

It