Quotes on Water And Fire

It is with our Passions, as it is with Fire and Water, they are 'Good Servants,' but 'Bad Masters.'

Absence in love is like water upon fire; a little quickens, but much extinguishes it.

Virtue is more to man than either water or fire. I have seen men die from treading on water and fire, but I have never seen a man die from treading the course of virtue.