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.

Luck is believing you’re lucky. 

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

Fortune brings in some boats that are not steered.

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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