Who said “A man is a god in ruins.”?

“Humanity either makes, or breeds, or tolerates all its afflictions.”

“Little minds are tamed and subdued by misfortune; but great minds rise above it.”

“Many miles away there's a shadow on the door of a cottage on the Shore of a dark Scottish lake.”

“Mishaps are like knives, that either serve us or cut us, as we grasp them by the blade or the handle.”

“Prosperity is a great teacher; adversity is a greater. Possession pampers the mind; privation trains and strengthens it.”

“Money often costs too much.”

“We boil at different degrees.”

“Whatever limits us we call fate.”

“Every hero becomes a bore at last.”

“Every artist was first an amateur.”

“Things refuse to be mismanaged long.”