“An ill weed grows apace.”

“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.”

“Less than the weed that grows beside thy door”

“5465. Weeds are apt to grow faster than good Herbs.”

“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.”

“Fear is a strange soil. It grows obedience like corn, which grow in straight lines to make weeding easier. But sometimes it grows the potatoes of defiance, which flourish underground.”