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

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.

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

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

Luck takes the step that no one sees.

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

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

Nothing is as obnoxious as other people’s luck.

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

Survivors look back and see omens, messages they missed.

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

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

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