"Glass antique! 'twixt thee and Nell Draw we here a parallel. She, like thee, was forced to bear All reflections, foul or fair. Thou art deep and bright within,— Depths as bright belong'd to Gwynne; Thou art very frail as well, Frail as flesh is,—so was Nell."

"Non equidem invideo: miror magis."

"Audentes fortuna juvat."

"For fortune's wheel is on the turn, And some go up and some go down."

"Forever, Fortune, wilt thou prove An unrelenting foe to love, And, when we meet a mutual heart, Come in between, and bid us part?"

"By wondrous accident perchance one may Grope out a needle in a load of hay; And though a white crow be exceedingly rare, A blind man may, by fortune, catch a hare."

"Che sovente addivien che'l saggio è'l forte. Fabre a se stesso è di beata sorte."

"Felicitate corrumpimur."

"Miserrima est fortuna quæ inimico caret."

"Fortuna vitrea est, tum cum splendet frangitur."

"Fortuna nimium quem favet, stultum facit."

"Fors æqua merentes<br.Respicit."

"Fortune is like a widow won, And truckles to the bold alone."

"In losing fortune, many a lucky elf Has found himself."

"Fortune, my friend, I've often thought, Is weak, if Art assist her not: So equally all Arts are vain, If Fortune help them not again."

"So is Hope Changed for Despair—one laid upon the shelf, We take the other. Under heaven's high cope Fortune is god—all you endure and do Depends on circumstance as much as you."

"Volat ambiguis Mobilis alis hora; nec ulli Præstat velox Fortuna fidem."

"Minor in parvis Fortuna furit, Leviusque ferit leviora deus."

"O Fortuna, viris invida fortibus, Quam non æque bonis præmia dividis!"

"Iniqua raro maximis virtutibus Fortuna parcit. Nemo se tuto diu Periculis offerre tam crebris potest, Quem sæpe transit casus, aliquando invenit."

"Aurea rumpunt tecta quietem, Vigilesque trahit purpura noctes. O si pateant pectora ditum, Quantos intus sublimis agit Fortuna metus."

"Felix, quisquis novit famulum Rogemque pati, Vultusque potest variare suos! Rapuit vires pondusque malis, Casus animo qui tulit æquo."

"Quid non dedit fortuna non eripit."

"Quidquid in altum, fortuna tulit, ruitura levat."

"Præcipites regum casus Fortuna rotat."

"Breves et mutabiles vices rerum sunt, et fortuna nunquam simpliciter indulget."

"Sed profecto Fortuna in omni re dominatur; ea res cunctas ex lubidine magis, quam ex vero, celebrat, obscuratque."

"Chacun est artisan de sa bonne fortune."

"Centre fortune, la diverse un chartier rompit nazardes son fouet."

"Nihil est periculosius in hominibus mutata subito fortuna."

"Præsente fortuna pejor est futuri metus."

"The lines are fallen unto me in pleasant places; yea, I have a goodly heritage."

"Who thinks that fortune cannot change her mind, Prepares a dreadful jest for all mankind. And who stands safest? Tell me, is it he That spreads and swells in puff'd prosperity, Or bless'd with little, whose preventing care In peace provides fit arms against a war?"

"The wheel goes round and round, And some are up and some are on the down, And still the wheel goes round."

"Fortune had so favoured me in this war that I feared, the rather, that some tempest would follow so favourable a gale."

"Actutum fortunæ solent mutarier; varia vita est."

"Nulli est homini perpetuum bonum."

"Fortuna humana fingit artatque ut lubet."

"C'est la fortune de France."

"I wish thy lot, now bad, still worse, my friend, For when at worst, they say, things always mend."

"Intera fortunam quisque debet manere suam."

"Donec eris felix, multos numerabis amicos; Tempora si fuerint nubila solus eris."

"Fortuna miserrima tute est: Nam timor eventus deterioris abest."

"Casus ubique valet: semper tibi pendeat hamus, Quo minime credas gurgite, piscis erit."