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

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

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

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

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

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

Good fortune turns aside destruction by a great god.

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

Nothing is as obnoxious as other people’s luck.

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

Luck takes the step that no one sees.

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 brings in some boats that are not steered.