(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].)