Nothing is so beautiful as spring - when weeds in wheels shoot long and lovely and lush Thrush's eggs look little low heavens and thrush through the echoing timber does so rinse and wring the ear it strikes like lightning to hear him sing.

Without hard work nothing grows but weeds.

Among the weeds choking out growth and good government are the hundreds of boards commissions and advisory committees that have sprouted over the years. They devour time money and energy far beyond any real contribution they make.

A good garden may have some weeds.

The weeds keep multiplying in our garden which is our mind ruled by fear. Rip them out and call them by name.

Prejudices it is well known are most difficult to eradicate from the heart whose soil has never been loosened or fertilized by education they grow firm there firm as weeds among stones.

I do some of my best thinking while pulling weeds.

Happiness must be cultivated. It is like character. It is not a thing to be safely let alone for a moment or it will run to weeds.