It is so difficult not to become vain about one’s own good luck.

A self-made man is one who believes in luck and sends his son to Oxford.

Fortune resists half-hearted prayers. 

Fortune brings in some boats that are not steered.

Nothing is as obnoxious as other people’s luck.

We do not suffer by accident. 

Good fortune turns aside destruction by a great god.

Luck is believing you’re lucky. 

Good fortune is light as a feather, but nobody knows how to hold it up. Misfortune is heavy as the earth, but nobody knows how to stay out of its way.

Some folks want their luck buttered.

Those who trust to chance must abide by the results of chance.

To hold a throne is luck; to bestow it, virtue.

Luck takes the step that no one sees.