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

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

Nothing is as obnoxious as other people’s luck.

You never know what worse luck your bad luck has saved you from.

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

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

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

Fortune brings in some boats that are not steered.

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

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

Fortune resists half-hearted prayers. 

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

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.