Marriage is the highest state of friendship. If happy, it lessens our cares by dividing them, at the same time that it doubles our pleasures by mutual participation. Samuel Richardson
Friendship makes prosperity more brilliant, and lightens adversity by dividing and sharing it. Cicero
Then join hand in hand, brave Americans all! By uniting we stand, by dividing we fall. John Dickinson (delegate)
The trade of insurance gives great security to the fortunes of private people, and by dividing among a great many that loss which would ruin an individual, makes it fall light and easy upon the whole society. Adam Smith
I think it is impossible to explain faith. It is like trying to explain air, which one cannot do by dividing it into its component parts and labeling them scientifically. It must be breathed to be understood. Patrick White