Fortune resists half-hearted prayers. 

Luck takes the step that no one sees.

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

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

One should always play fairly when one has the winning cards.

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

We do not suffer by accident. 

Casting lots causes contentions to cease, and keeps the mighty apart.

Luck is believing you’re lucky. 

Good or ill fortune is very little at our disposal.

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

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

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