No one realizes how beautiful it is to travel until he comes home and rests his head on his old, familiar pillow.
Lin YutangThere is no proper time and place for reading. When the mood for reading comes, one can read anywhere
Lin YutangIt is that unoccupied space which makes a room habitable, as it is our leisure hours which make life endurable.
Lin YutangI am willing to allow that smoking is a moral weakness, but on the other hand, we must beware of the man without weaknesses. He is not to be trusted. He is apt to be always sober and he cannot make a single mistake. His habits are likely to be regular, his existence more mechanical and his head always maintains its supremacy over his heart. Much as I like reasonable persons, I hate completely rational beings.
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