“Less than the weed that grows beside thy door”

“An ill weed grows apace.”

“Go oft to the house of thy friend, for weeds choke the unused path.”

“Religion acts as a moral gardener, to weed out, or suppress, evil tendencies, which, like weeds: grow.”

“A weed is just a flower growing in the wrong place”

“[W]ithout hard work, nothing grows but weeds.”

“As superstition is the weed of the brain, it grows perfusely, once started.”

“Slavery they can have anywhere. It is a weed that grows in every soil.”

“Power-lust is a weed that grows only in the vacant lots of an abandoned mind.”

“The sweetest thing that ever grew
Beside a human door!”