If there is anything we are serious about, it is neither religion nor learning, but food.
Lin YutangWhy should man bother himself so much about salvation, unless he has a feeling of being doomed?
Lin YutangHow many of us are able to distinguish between the odors of noon and midnight, or of winter and summer, or of a windy spell and a still one? If man is so generally less happy in the cities than in the country, it is because all these variations and nuances of sight and smell and sound are less clearly marked and lost in the general monotony of gray walls and cement pavements.
Lin Yutang