Fortune resists half-hearted prayers. 

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?

Luck takes the step that no one sees.

Nothing is as obnoxious as other people’s luck.

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

Some folks want their luck buttered.

Good fortune turns aside destruction by a great god.

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

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

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

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

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.