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

Fortune resists half-hearted prayers. 

Misfortune, n. The kind of fortune that never misses.

Good or ill fortune is very little at our disposal.

Luck is not something you can mention in the presence of self-made men.

Survivors look back and see omens, messages they missed.

It is weak and silly to say you cannot bear what it is your fate to be required to bear. 

Luck, in the great game of war, is undoubtedly lord of all.

You never know what worse luck your bad luck has saved you from.

There are two times in a man’s life when he should not speculate: when he can’t afford it, and when he can.

To put one’s trust in God is only a longer way of saying that one will chance it.

Luck takes the step that no one sees.

Some folks want their luck buttered.