Lapham’s Quarterly

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

We do not suffer by accident. 

Good or ill fortune is very little at our disposal.

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

Fortune brings in some boats that are not steered.

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

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

Fortune resists half-hearted prayers. 

Luck takes the step that no one sees.

Good fortune turns aside destruction by a great god.