Noblest minds are easiest bent. [ Homer ]

Plain dealing is easiest and best. [ Jane Porter ]

True ease in writing comes from art, not chance,
As those move easiest who have learned to dance. [ Pope ]

'Tis easiest dealing with the firmest mind -
More just when it resists, and, when it yields, more kind. [ Crabbe ]

The finest minds, like the finest metals, dissolve the easiest. [ Pope ]

Happiness appears to be a state that comes easiest when unsought. [ Henry D. Chapin ]

It is the easiest thing in the world for a man to deceive himself. [ Proverb ]

Dr. Holmes says, both wittily and truly, that crying widows are easiest consoled. [ H. W. Shaw ]

Poetry is an art, the easiest to dabble in, and the hardest in which to reach true excellence. [ Stedman ]

Old friends are best. King James used to call for his old shoes. They were easiest for his feet. [ John Selden ]

I believe that remorse is the least active of all a man's moral senses, - the very easiest to be deadened when wakened, and in some never wakened at all. [ Thackeray ]

No, a monosyllable, the easiest learned by the child, but the most difficult to practise by the man, contains within it the import of a life, the weal or woe of an eternity. [ Johnson ]

By three methods we may learn wisdom: first, by reflection, which is the noblest; second, by imitation, which is the easiest; and third, by experience, which is the bitterest. [ Confucius ]

The language of the heart - the language which comes from the heart and goes to the heart - is always simple, always graceful, and always full of power, but no art of rhetoric can teach it. It is at once the easiest and most difficult language - difficult, since it needs a heart to speak it; easy, because its periods though rounded and full of harmony, are still unstudied. [ Bovee ]