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

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

Fortune resists half-hearted prayers. 

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

Luck, in the great game of war, is undoubtedly lord of all.

Survivors look back and see omens, messages they missed.

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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