Fortune

Famous quotes containing the word fortune:

“The vulgar call good fortune that which really is produced by the calculations of genius.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)

“Hard is his lot, that here by Fortune plac’d,
Must watch the wild Vicissitudes of Taste;”
—Samuel Johnson (1709–1784)

“If there is a gratification which I envy any people in this world it is to your country [Italy] its music. This is the favorite passion of my soul, and fortune has cast my lot in a country where it is in a state of deplorable barbarism.”
—Thomas Jefferson (1743–1826)