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

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

Good fortune turns aside destruction by a great god.

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

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

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

Fortune brings in some boats that are not steered.

Good or ill fortune is very little at our disposal.

Luck takes the step that no one sees.

Luck is believing you’re lucky. 

We do not suffer by accident. 

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

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