"Men are the sport of circumstances, when The circumstances seem the sport of men."

"Circumstances beyond my individual control."

"To what fortuitous occurrence do we not owe every pleasure and convenience of our lives."

"Man without religion is the creature of circumstances. Religion is above all circumstances, and will lift him up abov…"

"Events are the true schoolmasters."

"Condition, circumstance is not the thing."

"My circumstances Being so near the truth as I will make them, Must first induce you to believe."

"Leave frivolous circumstances."

"And grasps the skirts of happy chance, And breasts the blows of circumstance."

"And circumstance, that unspiritual god, And miscreator, makes and helps along Our coming evils, with a critch-like ro…"