FORTUNE AND LUCK

If Fortune favor you, be not elated;
If she frown, do not despond.
     --AUSONIUS.

When Fortune means to men most good,
She looks upon them with a threatening eye.
     --King John, III. 4, 119.

When smiling Fortune spreads her golden ray,
All crowd around to flatter and obey;
But when she thunders from the angry sky,
Our friends, our flatterers, our lovers fly.
     --OVID.

Since Fortune is not in our power,
Let us be as little as possible in hers.
     --STEELE.