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

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.

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

Good or ill fortune is very little at our disposal.

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

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

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

Luck is believing you’re lucky. 

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

Fortune brings in some boats that are not steered.

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

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