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
Li Po 
William Hull 
Esther Williams 
Helen Mirren 
Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. 
George Michael 
Dave Mason 
Amanda Bynes