Lin Yutang World Quotations

There is something in the nature of tea that leads us into a world of quiet contemplation of life.

Of all the unhappy people in the world, the unhappiest are those who have not found something they want to do.

The man who has not the habit of reading is imprisoned in his immediate world.

China is the greatest mystifying and stupefying fact in the modern world.

There are no books in this world that everybody must read, but only books that a person must read at a certain time in a given place under given circumstances and at a given period of his life.

Is it not tragic, for example, that while in the last World War almost everyone believed it was the war to end all wars and wanted to make it so, now in this Second World War almost no writer that I have read dares even suggest that this is the war to end all wars, or act on that belief? We have lost the courage to hope.