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.

Biography
Cherbuliez was born at Geneva where his father André Cherbuliez (1795-1874) was a classical professor at the Université de Genève. The earlier novels of Cherbuliez have been said with truth to show marked traces of the influence of George Sand; and in spite of modification his method was that of an older school. His first book originally publiVictor Cherbuliezd in 1860 reappeared in 1864 under the title of Un Cheval de Phidias: it is a romantic study of art in the golden age of Athens.

He was born at Geneva Switzerland and died at Combs-la-Ville. Charles Victor Cherbuliez (19 July 1829 – 1 July 1899) was a French novelist and author. He was the eleventh member elected to occupy seat 3 of the Académie française in 1881.