Our hour is marked, and no one can claim a moment of life beyond what fate has predestined.

Destiny urges me to a goal of which I am ignorant. Until that goal is attained I am invulnerable, unassailable. When Destiny has accomplished her purpose in me, a fly may suffice to destroy me.

I don't believe in leaving things to luck. I believe in hard work and preparation.

Luck and destiny are the excuses of the world's failures.

There is a destiny which has the control of our actions, not to be resisted by the strongest efforts of human nature.

I feel the force of her amiable beauties in the recollection of a thousand tender passages that I coud wish to obliterate, till I am bid to revive them. - but experience alas! sadly reminds me how Impossible this is. - and evinces an Opinion which I have long entertaind, that there is a Destiny, which has the Sovereign controul of our Actions - not to be resisted by the strongest efforts of Human Nature.