Education is not the filling of a pail, but the lighting of the fire.
One must never let the fire go out in one's soul but keep it burning.
Absence diminishes mediocre passions and increases great ones, as the wind extinguishes candles and fans fires.
Life is a flame that is always burning itself out; but it catches fire again every time a child is born.
To light a fire with fire.
A house is not a home unless it contains food and fire for the mind as well as the body.
The instruction we find in books is like fire. We fetch it from our neighbours, kindle it at home, communicate it to others, and it becomes the property of all.
The artist must create a spark before he can make a fire and before art is born, the artist must be ready to be consumed by the fire of his own creation.
As soon go kindle fire with snow, as seek to quench the fire of love with words.
Love can no more continue without a constant motion than fire can and when once you take hope and fear away, you take from it its very life and being.
This is the truth: as from a fire aflame thousands of sparks come forth, even so from the Creator an infinity of beings have life and to him return again.
