We do not suffer by accident. 

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

Luck takes the step that no one sees.

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

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

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

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

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.

Luck is believing you’re lucky. 

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.

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