Luck is believing you’re lucky. 

Good fortune turns aside destruction by a great god.

Some folks want their luck buttered.

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.

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. 

’Tis not a ridiculous devotion to say a prayer before a game at tables?

We do not suffer by accident. 

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

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

Good or ill fortune is very little at our disposal.

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

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