What helps luck is a habit of watching for opportunities, of having a patient but restless mind, of sacrificing one's read more

What helps luck is a habit of watching for opportunities, of having a patient but restless mind, of sacrificing one's ease or vanity, or uniting a love of detail to foresight, and of passing through hard times bravely and cheerfully.

Ten years from now I plan to be sitting here, looking out over my land. I hope I'll be writing read more

Ten years from now I plan to be sitting here, looking out over my land. I hope I'll be writing books, but if not, I'll be on my pond fishing with my kids. I feel like the luckiest guy I know.

Oh a cockroach is better luck than a cricket upon the hearth
for he magnetizes to your home those read more

Oh a cockroach is better luck than a cricket upon the hearth
for he magnetizes to your home those who love every heart.
(typo corrected).

If a man who cannot count finds a four-leaf clover, is he lucky?

If a man who cannot count finds a four-leaf clover, is he lucky?

Luck is the residue of design.

Luck is the residue of design.

When I work fourteen hours a day, seven days a week, I get lucky.

When I work fourteen hours a day, seven days a week, I get lucky.

Good luck befriend thee, Son; for at thy birth
The fairy ladies danced upon the hearth.

Good luck befriend thee, Son; for at thy birth
The fairy ladies danced upon the hearth.

I find that the harder I work, the more luck I seem to have.

I find that the harder I work, the more luck I seem to have.

Watch out when you're getting all you want. Fattening hogs ain't in luck.

Watch out when you're getting all you want. Fattening hogs ain't in luck.