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

Fortune resists half-hearted prayers. 

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

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

Survivors look back and see omens, messages they missed.

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

Luck takes the step that no one sees.

We do not suffer by accident. 

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

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

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

Fortune brings in some boats that are not steered.

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