Nothing is as obnoxious as other people’s luck.

Fortune resists half-hearted prayers. 

Good or ill fortune is very little at our disposal.

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

Luck is believing you’re lucky. 

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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.