A person who can write a long letter with ease, cannot write ill.

My ideas flow so rapidly that I have not time to express them──by which means my letters sometimes convey no ideas at all to my correspondents.

His own enjoyment, or his own ease, was, in every particular, his ruling principle.

A mind lively and at ease, can do with seeing nothing, and can see nothing that does not answer.

to hope was to expect

She knew that what Marianne and her mother conjectured one moment, they believed the next: that with them, to wish was to hope, and to hope was to expect.