handmaid quotes

All good moral philosophy is but an handmaid to religion.

- Francis,Viscount St Albans Bacon
  The Advancement of Learning, bk.2, ch.22, section14.

Divitiae bona ancilla, pessima domina. Riches are a good handmaid, but the worst mistress.

- Francis,Viscount St Albans Bacon
  De Dignitiate et  Augmentis Scientiarum,  Antitheta no.6 (translated by Gilbert  Watts,1640).

And Mary said, Behold the handmaid of the Lord; be it unto me according to thy word. And the angel departed from her.

-Bible (NewTestament)
St Luke1:38.

By viewing nature, nature's handmaid art, Makes mighty things from small beginnings grow: Thus fishes first to shipping did impart, Their tail the rudder, and their head the prow.

-John Dryden
  Annus Mirabilis, stanza155.