Now it is characteristic of play that one plays without reason and there must be no reason for it. Play is its own good reason.
Lin YutangAnyone who reads a book with a sense of obligation does not understand the art of reading.
Lin YutangIndia was China's teacher in religion and imaginative literature, and the world's teacher in trignometry, quandratic equations, grammar, phonetics, Arabian Nights, animal fables, chess, as well as in philosophy, and that she inspired Boccaccio, Goethe, Herder, Schopenhauer, Emerson, and probably also old Aesop.
Lin Yutang