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.

Survivors look back and see omens, messages they missed.

We do not suffer by accident. 

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

Luck is believing you’re lucky. 

You never know what worse luck your bad luck has saved you from.

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

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

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

Good fortune turns aside destruction by a great god.

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

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

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