Another who was honest and constant to his work, erred by his perpetual misjudgment,--he lacked discretion.

Hundreds lose their luck by indulging sanguine expectations, by trusting fraudulent men, and by dishonest gains.

A man never has good luck who has a bad wife.

I never knew an early-rising, hard-working, prudent man, careful of his earnings and strictly honest, who complained of his bad luck.

A good character, good habits, and iron industry are impregnable to the assaults of the ill luck that fools are dreaming of.
But when I see a tatterdemalion creeping out of a grocery late in the forenoon with his hands stuck into his pockets, the rim of his hat turned up, and the crown knocked in, I know he has had bad luck,--for the worst of all luck is to be a sluggard, a knave, or a tippler." "You have a difficult subject," said Anthony Trollope at Niagara Falls, to an artist who had attempted to draw the spray of the waters.