“Good fortune is the best of all mistresses.”
“...fortune was a fickle mistress.”
“In a word, in adversity she was the best of comforters, in good fortune the most troublesome of friends...”
“I was once a fortunate man but at some point fortune abandoned me. But true good fortune is what you make for yourself. Good fortune: good character, good intentions, and good actions.”
“...good fortune is not only good fortune, and over the years things happened in that family that caused some terrible regret. Still, for years it all seemed to me to be blindingly beautiful. And it was.”
“Henceforth I ask not good fortune. I myself am good fortune.”