“Infant wart hogs resemble both sides of the family.”

“In a Kenya game park once I saw a family of wart-hogs waddling ungainly and in a tremendous hurry across the grass. Contemptuous though I am of those who find animals comic…still I could not help laughing at this quaint spectacle. My African companion rightly rebuked me. “You should not laugh at them,” he said. “They are beautiful to each other.”

“My father’s family name being Pirrip, and my Christian name Philip, my infant tongue could make of both names nothing longer or more explicit than Pip. So, I called myself Pip, and came to be called Pip.”

“The most merciful thing that a large family does to one of its infant members is to kill it." Margaret Sanger”

“A family is a little world within doors; the miniature resemblance of the great worls without.”

“History often resembles myth, because they are both ultimately of the same stuff.”