Hear the words of prudence, give heed unto her counsels, and store them in thine heart; her maxims are universal, and all the virtues lean upon her; she is the guide and the mistress of human life. - Akhenaton It is madness to make fortune the mistress of events, because by herself she is nothing and is ruled by prudence. - John Dryden Intelligence is the wife, imagination is the mistress, memory is the servant. - Victor Hugo In two minutes only those shops which could boast of no attendant save the master or the mistress remained with open eyes. These were ever somewhat less prompt to exclude customers than the others: for their owners' ears the closing hour had scarcely the cheerfulness that it possessed for the hired servants of the rest. - Thomas Hardy It is the personality of the mistress that the home expresses. Men are forever guests in our homes, no matter how much happiness they may find there. - Elsie De Wolfe