"Night-blooming cereus" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... the violet writes a book on "Expression as I Have Found It," making laws for the evolution of beautiful blossoms, it leaves the Century Plant out of its equation, or else swears, i' faith, that a cactus is not a flower, and that a Night-Blooming Cereus is a disordered thought from a madman's brain. And when the proud and lofty cactus writes a book it never mentions violets, because it has never stooped ...
— Little Journeys to the Homes of the Great Philosophers, Volume 8 • Elbert Hubbard |
