Luck is believing you’re lucky. 

When the abbot throws the dice, the whole convent will play.

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

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

Some folks want their luck buttered.

We do not suffer by accident. 

Luck takes the step that no one sees.

Fortune resists half-hearted prayers. 

Good or ill fortune is very little at our disposal.

Nothing is as obnoxious as other people’s luck.

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

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

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