There are beauties of character which, like the night-blooming cereus, are closed against the glare and turbulence of every-day life, and bloom only in shade and solitude, and beneath the quiet stars.


The optimist (ed. 1850)

Henry Theodore Tuckerman Quotes

There are beauties of character which, like the night-blooming cereus, are closed against the glare and turbulence of every-day life, and bloom only...

There are beauties of character which, like the night-blooming cereus, are closed against the glare and turbulence of every-day life, and bloom only...

There are beauties of character which, like the night-blooming cereus, are closed against the glare and turbulence of every-day life, and bloom only...

There are beauties of character which, like the night-blooming cereus, are closed against the glare and turbulence of every-day life, and bloom only...