8岁时,林语堂说长大后要当作家,他偷偷写了一本教科书,隔一页是课文,一页是插图,后来被大姐发现了,全家的兄弟姐妹都能背诵其中的一首诗:“人自高,终必败;持战甲,靠弓矢。而不知,他人强;他人力,千百倍。”在上海圣约翰大学时,有次林语堂一个人斜倚栏杆,做出沉思状。同班同学见了,以为他想家了,过来安慰他,谁知林皱眉问道:“梁启超为什么成了今天的梁启超?”原来,他刚刚看了《饮冰室文集》,对梁启超的政体改革策略很是佩服,所以在栏杆前回味,同学直呼上当。林语堂热爱运动,擅长打网球、踢足球、划船、赛跑。他以5分钟一英里的成绩刷新了圣约翰大学该项运动 At the age of 8, Lin Yutang said that when he grew up to be a writer, he secretly wrote a textbook, every other page of text, one page of illustration and later discovered by his eldest sister, all the brothers and sisters could recite one of the poems : “At the St. John’s University in Shanghai, there are times Lin Yutang reclining a railing alone, do Meditation like. Met with classmates met, think he homesick, come to comfort him, who knows Lin frown asked: ”Why did Liang Qichao become today’s Liang Qichao?“ So, he had just read the ”drink ice room corpus," Liang Qichao’s Politic reform strategy is admired, so aftertaste in the railing, students address him. Lin Yutang love sports, good at playing tennis, football, boating, racing. He updated St. John’s University with five minutes a mile