Necessity unites hearts. [ German Proverb ]

The grave unites; where even the great find rest,
And blended lie the oppressor and the opprest. [ Pope ]

The amity which wisdom unites not, folly will untie. [ Proverb ]

Marriage often unites for life two people who scarcely know each other. [ Balzac ]

An individual helps not; only he who unites with many at the proper time. [ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe ]

The matrimonial knot is sometimes tied so tightly that it wounds those whom it unites. [ De Varennes ]

Simplicity is in the intention, purity in the affection; simplicity turns to God, purity unites with and enjoys him. [ Thomas à Kempis ]

Art rests on a kind of religious sense, on a deep, steadfast earnestness; and on this account it unites so readily with religion. [ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe ]

Differences, we know, are never so effectually laid asleep as by some common calamity; an enemy unites all to whom he threatens danger. [ Dr. Johnson ]

A man of intellect is lost unless he unites energy of character to intellect. When we have the lantern of Diogenes we must have his staff. [ Chamfort ]

Let the current of your being set towards God, then your life will be filled and calmed by one master-passion which unites and stills the soul. [ Alexander Maclaren ]

He who calls in the aid of an equal understanding doubles his own; and he who profits by a superior understanding raises his powers to a level with the height of the superior understanding he unites with. [ Burke ]