If I could only remember that the days were, not bricks to be laid row on row, to be built into a solid house, where one might dwell in safety and peace, but only food for the fires of the heart. – Edmund Wilson
The human imagination has already come to conceive the possibility of recreating human society. – Edmund Wilson
The product of the scientific imagination is a new vision of relations – like that of artistic imagination. – Edmund Wilson
A mere compilation of facts presents only the skeleton of History; we do but little for her if we cannot invest her with life, clothe her in the habiliments of her day, and enable her to call forth the sympathies of succeeding generations. – Hannah Farnham Lee, The Huguenots in France and America