One should always play fairly when one has the winning cards.

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?

Good or ill fortune is very little at our disposal.

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

Good fortune turns aside destruction by a great god.

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.

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

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

Survivors look back and see omens, messages they missed.

We do not suffer by accident. 

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.