All these come from Tormod Kinnes who has selected about 340 quotations and abstracts which he has annotated
http://oaks.nvg.org/yutang2.html
It is amazing how few people are conscious of the importance of the art of lying in bed. [202]
Nine tenths of the world's most important discoveries, both scientific and philosophical, are come upon when the scientist or philosopher is curled up in bed at two or five o'clock in the morning. [202]
Those people who agree with me in believing in lying in bed as one of the greatest pleasures of life are the honest men. [202]
I am sorry I am not proficient in bird-lore, but I enjoyed them all the same. [205]
Bird-songs stand out preeminently. [205. mod]
There are many lollers among my friends and acquaintances, but somehow I have acquired a special reputation for lolling. [206]
A legend developed that I was a man doing nothing the whole day but lolling idly on a sofa smoking a cigar. [207]
What are armchairs for anyway, except for people to loll in? [207]
If we admit that comfort is not a sin, then we must also admit that the more comfortably a man arranges himself in an armchair in a friend's drawing-room, the greater respect he is showing to his host. [209]
Human life goes in cycles of work and play, of tension and relaxation. [210]
When we . . . find a true conversationalist, the pleasure is equal to, if not above, that of reading a delightful author. [212]
A good conversation is . . . like a good familiar essay. [213]
When we hear a true conversation or read a good familiar essay, we feel that we have seen a plainly dressed country maiden washing clothes by the riverbank, with perhaps her hair a little disheveled and one button loose, but withal charming and intimate and likable. [214]
Enjoyment . . . can . . . be developed in an atmosphere of leisure, friendship and sociability. [221]
A broader view of house should include everything pertaining to living conditions. [248]
It is the invariable test of a wise man whether he has good food at home or not. [249]
It is a pretty crazy life when one eats in order to work and does not work in order to eat. [249]
The Westerners go to see a doctor only when they are sick, and do not see him when they are well. [251]
Tomato juice must be ranked as one of the greatest Western discoveries in the twentieth century. [253]
Westerners shake each other's hands, while we shake our own. [257]
There is a great desire among housewives . . . to vary their interior arrangements. [274]
The ideal of Chinese interiors seems to consist of the two ideas, simplicity and space. A well arranged room always has few pieces of furniture. [275]