C.N. Douglas, comp. Forty Thousand Quotations: Prose and Poetical. 1917.

Ease

A life of ease is a difficult pursuit.

Cowper.

Indulge, and to thy genius freely give,
For not to live at ease is not to live.

Persius.

Ease leads to habit, as success to ease,
He lives by rule who lives himself to please.

Crabbe.

He lives at ease that freely lives.

Barbour.