He was a moody and solitary person, except in the company of a few close friends who testified to the charming and delightful quality of his companionship.

I suppose his poems will outlast a great many greater reputations.

But they will always find very few readers in any generation.
Channing visited my elder sister almost every day or evening for a good while, but rarely remained more than two or three minutes if he found anybody else in the room.
George William Curtis, afterward the famous orator, and his brother, Burrill, occupied for a year or two a small farmhouse or hut, with one or two rooms in it, in Concord, on the Lincoln road.

They had been at Brook Farm and came to Concord, I suppose attracted by Emerson.

They came to my father's house during their stay there every afternoon, and their call was as much a regular incident of the day as any stated meal.
Each of them was a boy of a very pleasant and delightful nature.
I think if George Curtis had dwelt almost anywhere but in New York city, he would have been a very powerful influence in the public life of his generation.