The times are never so bad but that a good man can make shift to live in them.
What part soever you take upon you, play that as well as you can and make the best of it.
He travels best that knows when to return.
Instead of inflicting these horrible punishments, it would be far more to the point to provide everyone with some means of livelihood, so that nobody's under the frightful necessity of becoming, first a thief, and then a corpse.
No more like together than is chalke to coles.
. . . 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.