“To be honest, as this world goes, is to be one man pick’d out of ten thousand.” ~Hamlet talking to Polonious

Hamlet is saying that there aren’t very many honest people in this world, so when you are honest, you are really something special. How we would say "one man pick’d out of ten thousand" today is just saying that you are one in a million, so just that there are not many other people like you. Hamlet obviously honored honest people very much, especially since there wasn’t very many in his life. Today there are more people I think that are honest. Maybe this is because we have more value for it and higher standards. But then again, there are some absolutely terrible people, who don't care that we live in a more civilized world, so they don't worry about being honest and everything.