The East will be seen to rush to the West and the South to the North in confusion round and about the universe, with great noise and trembling or fur… - Leonardo da Vinci

Marriage is like putting your hand into a bag of snakes in the hope of pulling out an eel.

You know that in an atmosphere of uniform density the most distant things seen through it, such as the mountains, in consequence of the great quantity of atmosphere which is between your eye and them, will appear blue. Therfore you should make the building... wall which is more distant less defined and bluer. ...five times as far away make five times as blue.

All objects transmit their image to the eye in pyramids, and the nearer to the eye these pyramids are intersected the smaller will the image appear of the objects which cause them.