When the thing taken into union is perfectly adapted to that which receives it, the result is delight and pleasure and satisfaction.
Leonardo da VinciNature is so delightful and abundant in its variations that among trees of the same kind there would not be found one which nearly resembles another, and not only the plants as a whole, but among their branches, leaves, and fruit, will not be found one which is precisely like another.
Leonardo da VinciThe knowledge of the past times and of the places of the earth is both an ornament and nutriment to the human mind.
Leonardo da Vinci