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

When the abbot throws the dice, the whole convent will play.

Luck is believing you’re lucky. 

Fortune brings in some boats that are not steered.

Good or ill fortune is very little at our disposal.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Luck takes the step that no one sees.