If one mouse is a spark. . . then ten thousand are a conflagration.
Wars do not end wars any more than an extraordinarily large conflagration does away with the fire hazard.
A spark neglected has often raised a conflagration.
Principle #6: Recognition that change and reform are not identical, and that innovation is a devouring conflagration more often than it is a torch of progress.
A torch lighted in the forests of America set all Europe in conflagration.
War is an unpredictable beast. Once unleashed, it runs like a rabid dog, ravening friend or foe alike. It can drag on for years, a slow attrition of nerve and fortitude, or be over in one brilliant flash, an extravagant conflagration of flame and blood and waste.
If, in all the cities, every house that is past repairing could be pulled down or burned up, how great would be the crash, how heaven-high the conflagration. It would be a veritable crack of Doom and glare of the Judgment.
What message, years of conflagration, have you: madness or hope? On thin cheeks strained by war and liberation bloody reflections still remain.
We should have a glorious conflagration, if all who cannot put fire into their works would only consent to put their works into the fire.
