To show a child what once delighted you, to find the child's delight added to your own - this is happiness.
J. B. PriestleyThere are plenty of clever young writers. But there is too much genius, not enough talent.
J. B. PriestleyIf we openly declare what is wrong with us, what is our deepest need, then perhaps the death and despair will by degrees disappear.
J. B. PriestleyOn the 1st of August, 1774, I endeavoured to extract air from mercurius calcinates per se [mercury oxide]; and I presently found that, by means of this lens, air was expelled from it very readily. … I admitted water to it [the extracted air], and found that it was not imbibed by it. But what surprized me more than I can well express, was, that a candle burned in this air with a remarkably vigorous flame… I was utterly at a loss how to account for it.
J. B. Priestley