Every one is a master and servant. [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]

A good servant must have good wages. [ Proverb ]

A sleepy master makes his servant a lout. [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]

A master of straw eats a servant of steel. [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]

A servant is known by his master's absence. [ Proverb ]

The slothful is the servant of the counters. [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]

A careless master makes a negligent servant. [ Proverb ]

He that tells a secret is another's servant. [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]

Society is the master, and man is the servant. [ G. A. Sala ]

The lazy servant to save one step, goes eight. [ Proverb ]

The tongue is the worst part of a bad servant. [ Juvenal ]

A servant and a cock should be kept but a year. [ Proverb ]

Money is a good servant, but a dangerous master. [ Bouheurs ]

An honest and diligent servant is an humble friend. [ Proverb ]

Worth without wealth is a good servant out of place. [ Proverb ]

If money be not your servant, it will be your master. [ Proverb ]

He can give little to his servant that licks his knife. [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]

Choose none for thy servant who have served thy betters. [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]

If you pay not a servant his wages, he will pay himself. [ Proverb ]

He can never be God's martyr that is the devil's servant. [ Proverb ]

A servant never yet miscarried through excess of respect. [ Proverb ]

One eye of the master's sees more than ten of the servant's. [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]

The great man is to be the servant of mankind, not they of him. [ Theodore Parker ]

He who trusts a secret to his servant makes his own man his master. [ Dryden ]

If thou art a master, be sometimes blind; if a servant, sometimes deaf. [ Thomas Fuller ]

A woman and her servant, acting in accord, would outwit a dozen devils. [ Proverb ]

The true gentlemen is God's servant, the world's master, and his own man. [ Proverb ]

Soul of the world, divine Necessity, Servant of God, and master of all things. [ Bailey ]

He that would have his virtue published is not the servant of virtue, but of glory. [ Ben Jonson ]

When wealthy, show thy wisdom not to be to wealth a servant, but make wealth serve thee. [ Sir J. Denham ]

He that cannot be the servant of many will never be master, true guide, and deliverer of many. [ Carlyle ]

Nobody can continue easy in his own mind who does not endeavour to become least of all and servant of all. [ Thomas à Kempis ]

Pity is sworn servant unto love; and of this be sure, wherever it begins to make the way, it lets the master in. [ Daniel ]

Life was intended to be so adjusted that the body should be the servant of the soul, and always subordinate to the soul. [ Josiah Gilbert Holland (pseudonym Timothy Titcomb) ]

To be without a servant in this world is not good; but to be without a master, it appears, is a still fataller predicament for some. [ Carlyle ]

Sleep is no servant of the will; it has caprices of its own: when courted most, it lingers still; when most pursued, 'tis swiftly gone. [ Bowring ]

If money be not thy servant, it will be thy master. The covetous man cannot so properly be said to possess wealth, as that it may be said to possess him. [ Bacon ]

In misfortune, in error, and when the time appointed for certain affairs is about to elapse, a servant who hath his master's welfare at heart ought to speak unasked. [ Hitopadesa ]

There the wicked cease from troubling; and there the weary be at rest. There the prisoners rest together; they hear not the voice of the oppressor. The small and great are there; and the servant is free from his master. [ Bible ]

It is very sad for a man to make himself servant to a thing, his manhood all taken out of him by the hydraulic pressure of excessive business. I should not like to be merely a great doctor, a great lawyer, a great minister, a great politician - I should like to be also something of a man. [ Theodore Parker ]

Men pursue riches under the idea that their possession will set them at pace, and above the world. But the law of association often makes those who begin by loving gold as a servant finish by becoming themselves its slaves; and independence without wealth is at least as common as wealth without independence. [ Colton ]

The press, important as is its office, is but the servant of the human intellect, and its ministry is for good or for evil, according to the character of those who direct it. The press is a mill which grinds all that is put into its hopper. Fill the hopper with poisoned grain, and it will grind it to meal, but there is death in the bread. [ Bryant ]

The reputation of generosity is to be purchased pretty cheap; it does not depend so much upon a man's general expense, as it does upon his giving handsomely where it is proper to give at all. A man, for instance, who should give a servant four shillings would pass for covetous, while he who gave him a crown would be reckoned generous; so that the difference of those two opposite characters turns upon one shilling. [ Chesterfield ]

Mutability is the badge of infirmity; it is seldom that a man continues to wish and design the same thing two days alike; now he is for marrying, and now a mistress is preferred to a wife; now he is ambitious and aspiring, presently the meanest servant is not more humble than he; this hour he squanders his money away, the next he turns miser; sometimes he is frugal and serious, at other times profuse, airy, and gay. [ Charron ]

Business is religion, and religion is business. The man who does not make a business of his religion has a religious life of no force, and the man who does not make a religion of his business has a business life of no character.
The world is God's workshop; the raw materials are His; the ideals and patterns are His; our hands are "the members of Christ," our reward His recognition. Blacksmith or banker, draughtsman or doctor, painter or preacher, servant or statesman, must work as unto the Lord, not merely making a living, but devoting a life. This makes life sacramental, turning its water into wine. This is twice blessed, blessing both the worker and the work. [ Maltbie Babcock ]

Many a good intention dies from inattention. If, through carelessness or indolence, or selfishness, a good intention is not put into effect, we have lost an opportunity, demoralized ourselves, and stolen from the pile of possible good. To be born and not fed, is to perish. To launch a ship and neglect it is to lose it. To have a talent and bury it, is to be a wicked and slothful servant. For in the end we shall be judged, not alone by what we have done, but by what we could have done. [ Maltbie Babcock ]

Two things a master commits to his servant's care - the child and the child's clothes. It will be a poor excuse for the servant to say, at his master's return, Sir, here are all the child's clothes, neat and clean, but the child is lost. Much so of the account that many will give to God of their souls and bodies at the great day. Lord, here is my body; I am very grateful for it; I neglected nothing that belonged to its contents and welfare; but as for my soul, that is lost and cast away forever. I took little care and thought about it. [ John Flavel ]