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

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.

Fortune resists half-hearted prayers. 

Good fortune turns aside destruction by a great god.

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

Luck is believing you’re lucky. 

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

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

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

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

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

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

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