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

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

Good fortune turns aside destruction by a great god.

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

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

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

Fortune resists half-hearted prayers. 

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

Fortune brings in some boats that are not steered.

Good or ill fortune is very little at our disposal.

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

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

Nothing is as obnoxious as other people’s luck.