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

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

Luck is not something you can mention in the presence of self-made men.

Luck is believing you’re lucky. 

Good or ill fortune is very little at our disposal.

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

Luck takes the step that no one sees.

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.

Fortune brings in some boats that are not steered.

We do not suffer by accident. 

It is so difficult not to become vain about one’s own good luck.

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

Those who trust to chance must abide by the results of chance.