Some folks want their luck buttered.

Good or ill fortune is very little at our disposal.

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

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

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

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

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

We do not suffer by accident. 

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

Good fortune turns aside destruction by a great god.

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

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

Luck takes the step that no one sees.