Few men are admired by their servants. [ Montaigne ]

Grandfather's servants are never good. [ Proverb ]

He who has many servants has many thieves. [ Dutch Proverb ]

All round the room my silent servants wait,
My friends in every season, bright and dim. [ Barry Cornwall ]

Many humble servants have not one true friend. [ Proverb ]

Without real masters you cannot have servants. [ Carlyle ]

Fire is the best of servants; but what a master! [ Carlyle ]

Fire and water are good servants but bad masters. [ Proverb ]

Masters are mostly the greatest servants in the house. [ Proverb ]

Servants should put on patience when they put on a livery. [ Proverb ]

Servants will not be diligent where the master is negligent. [ Proverb ]

Great people's servants think themselves of no small consequence. [ German Proverb ]

Laws are not masters but servants, and he rules them who obeys them. [ Henry Ward Beecher ]

The passions are like fire and water; good servants, but bad masters. [ Proverb ]

Be not too familiar with thy servants; at first it may beget love, but in the end it will breed contempt. [ Fuller ]

Riches are like bad servants, whose shoes are made of running leather, and will never tarry long with one master. [ Brooks ]

Passions, as fire and water, are good servants, but bad roasters, and subminister to the best and worst purposes. [ L'Estrange ]

Great abilities, when employed as God directs, do but make the owners of them greater and more painful servants to their neighbors. [ Swift ]

Speaking generally, no man appears great to his contemporaries, for the same reason that no man is great to his servants - both know too much of him. [ Colton ]

The joys of heaven are not the joys of passive contemplation, of dreamy remembrance, of perfect repose; but they are described thus: They rest not day nor night. His servants serve Him, and see His face. [ Alexander Maclaren ]

The want of interest renders a person negligent; servants are commonly negligent in what concerns their master's interest. Negligence is therefore the fault of persons of all descriptions, but particularly those in low condition. [ G. Crabb ]

Now nature is not at variance with art, nor art with nature; they being both the servants of his providence. Art is the perfection of nature. Were the world now as it was the sixth day, there were yet a chaos. Nature hath made one world, and art another. In brief, all things are artificial; for nature is the art of God. [ Sir Thomas Browne ]