Fire

"Flamma fumo est proxima."

"Divert her eyes with pictures in the fire."

"Parva sæpe scintilla contempta magnum excitavit incendium."

"‘Say to the southern forest: “This is what the Sovereign Lord says: I am about to set fire to you, and it will consume all your trees, both green and dry. The blazing flame will not be quenched.” ’"

"The fire i' the flint Shows not till it be struck."

"Fire that's closest kept burns most of all."

"In ashes of despaire, though burnt, shall make thee live."

"O joy! that in our embers Is something that doth live."

"Some human species may have made occasional use of fire as early as 800,000 years ago. By about 300,000 years ago, Homo erctus, Neanderthals and the forefathers of Homo sapiens were using fire on a daily basis"

"When humans domesticated fire, they gained control of an obedient and potentially limitless force."

"A little fire is quickly trodden out; Which, being sufter'd, rivers cannot quench."