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

Luck is believing you’re lucky. 

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

Luck takes the step that no one sees.

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

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?

Good or ill fortune is very little at our disposal.

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

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

Fortune resists half-hearted prayers. 

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

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