We do not suffer by accident. 

Good or ill fortune is very little at our disposal.

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

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

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.

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

To hold a throne is luck; to bestow it, virtue.

Survivors look back and see omens, messages they missed.

When the abbot throws the dice, the whole convent will play.

Luck takes the step that no one sees.

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

Nothing is as obnoxious as other people’s luck.