You wouldn't abandon ship in a storm just because you couldn't control the winds.
Yea, marry, now it is somewhat, for now it is rhyme; before, it was neither rhyme nor reason.
And peradventure we have more cause to thank Him for our loss than for our winning; for His wisdom better seeth what is good for us than we do ourselves.
Friendship demands attention.
The servant may not look to be in better case than his master.
There are dreadful punishments enacted against thieves, but it were much better to make such good provisions by which every man might be put in a method how to live, and so be preserved from the fatal necessity of stealing and of dying for it.