. . . the state of things and the dispositions of men were then such, that a man could not well tell whom he might trust or whom he might fear.
He travels best that knows when to return.
They have no lawyers among them, for they consider them as a sort of people whose profession it is to disguise matters.
See me safe up: for in my coming down, I can shift for myself.
If the lion knew his own strength, hard were it for any man to rule him.
They wonder much to hear that gold, which in itself is so useless a thing, should be everywhere so much esteemed, that even men for whom it was made, and by whom it has its value, should yet be thought of less value than it is.