One of the luckiest things that can happen to you in life is to have a happy childhood.
On Fortune’s cap we are not the very button.
O, I am fortune’s fool.
My pride fell with my fortunes.
It never occur to fools that merit and good fortune are closely united.
It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be in want of a wife.
IN ORDER TO HAVE A CHANGE OF FORTUNE AT THE LAST MINUTE YOU HAVE TO TAKE YOUR FORTUNE TO THE LAST MINUTE.
If you desire to get on in the world, friends and acquaintances are by far the best passport to fortune.[Zum Vorwärtskommen in der Welt sind Freundschaften und Kamaraderien bei weitem das Hauptmittel.]
Ideas are the beginning points of all fortunes.
I have always believed that all things depended upon Fortune and nothing upon ourselves.
Henceforth I ask not good-fortune, I myself am good-fortune.
He who has learned to love an art or science has wisely laid up riches against the day of riches.
