Aforismi in lingua originale - St. Francis of Assisi - He calls them his Brother Fire and his Sister Water.

For us the elements are like heralds who tell us with trumpet and tabard that we are drawing near the city of a great king; but he (ed. St. Francis) hails them with an old familiarity that is almost an old frivolity. He calls them his Brother Fire and his Sister Water.

Gilbert Keith Chesterton, St. Francis of Assisi.