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

Good fortune turns aside destruction by a great god.

Fortune resists half-hearted prayers. 

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

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

Fortune brings in some boats that are not steered.

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

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

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

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

We do not suffer by accident. 

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

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