Good or ill fortune is very little at our disposal.

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

Survivors look back and see omens, messages they missed.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Luck takes the step that no one sees.

Fortune brings in some boats that are not steered.

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.