What is ease?

Famous quotes containing the word ease:

    That having ease me given,
    With full delight,
    I leave this light;
    And take my flight
    For Heaven.
    Robert Herrick (1591–1674)

    The job of buildings is to improve human relations: architecture must ease them, not make them worse.
    Ralph Erskine (b. 1914)

    These arts open great gates of a future, promising to make the world plastic and to lift human life out of its beggary to a god- like ease and power.
    Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)