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

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

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

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

Luck is believing you’re lucky. 

We do not suffer by accident. 

Survivors look back and see omens, messages they missed.

Good or ill fortune is very little at our disposal.

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

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

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

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

Nothing is as obnoxious as other people’s luck.