’Tis not a ridiculous devotion to say a prayer before a game at tables?

Nothing is as obnoxious as other people’s luck.

Luck, in the great game of war, is undoubtedly lord of all.

It is weak and silly to say you cannot bear what it is your fate to be required to bear. 

Good fortune turns aside destruction by a great god.

Some folks want their luck buttered.

To put one’s trust in God is only a longer way of saying that one will chance it.

Fortune brings in some boats that are not steered.

A self-made man is one who believes in luck and sends his son to Oxford.

Good fortune is light as a feather, but nobody knows how to hold it up. Misfortune is heavy as the earth, but nobody knows how to stay out of its way.

Misfortune, n. The kind of fortune that never misses.

Casting lots causes contentions to cease, and keeps the mighty apart.

There are two times in a man’s life when he should not speculate: when he can’t afford it, and when he can.