C.N. Douglas, comp. Forty Thousand Quotations: Prose and Poetical. 1917.
Servants
Servant of God, well done.
A pampered menial drove me from the door.
If thou hast a loitering servant, send him of thy errand just before his dinner.
Reward a good servant well; and rather get quit of a bad one than disquiet thyself with him.
Be not too familiar with thy servants; at first it may beget love, but in the end ’twill breed contempt.
Perfect servants would be the worst of all for certain masters, whose happiness consists in finding fault with them.
Be not served with kinsman, or friends, or men intreated to stay; for they expect much, and do little; nor with such as are amorous, for their heads are intoxicated; and keep rather too few, than one too many.
Let thy servants be such as thou mayest command, and entertain none about thee but yeomen, to whom thou givest wages; for those that will serve thee without thy hire will cost thee treble as much as they that know thy fare.