Good fortune turns aside destruction by a great god.

We do not suffer by accident. 

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

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

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

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

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

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

Survivors look back and see omens, messages they missed.

Nothing is as obnoxious as other people’s luck.

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

Some folks want their luck buttered.

Good or ill fortune is very little at our disposal.