“Forgiveness does not change the past, but it does enlarge the future.”
“The weak can never forgive. Forgiveness is the attribute of the strong.”
“If I owe Smith ten dollars and God forgives me, that doesn't pay Smith.”
“Forgiveness is the fragrance the violet sheds on the heel that has crushed it.”
“Once a woman has forgiven her man, she must not reheat his sins for breakfast.”
“Right actions in the future are the best apologies for bad actions in the past.”
“God pardons like a mother, who kisses the offense into everlasting forgiveness.”
“Forgive him, for he believes that the customs of his tribe are the laws of nature!”
“Would not love see returning penitence afar off, and fall on its neck and kiss it?”
“The world can forgive practically anything except people who mind their own business.”
“A winner rebukes and forgives; a loser is too timid to rebuke and too petty to forgive”
“Every man should keep a fair-sized cemetery in which to bury the faults of his friends.”
“A woman who can't forgive should never have more than a nodding acquaintance with a man.”
“Humanity is never so beautiful as when praying for forgiveness, or else forgiving another.”
“How shall I lose the sin, yet keep the sense, and love the offender, yet detest the offence?”
“There is no sense in crying over spilt milk. Why bewail what is done and cannot be recalled?”
“''I can forgive, but I cannot forget,'' is only another way of saying, ''I cannot forgive.''”
“The heart of a mother is a deep abyss at the bottom of which you will always find forgiveness.”
“He who has not forgiven an enemy has never yet tasted one of the most sublime enjoyments of life.”
“To be able to bear provocation is an argument of great reason, and to forgive it of a great mind.''”
“It is a very delicate job to forgive a man, without lowering him in his own estimation, and yours too.”
“The stupid neither forgive nor forget; the nanve forgive and forget; the wise forgive but do not forget.”
“[N]ever does the human soul appear so strong as when it foregoes revenge and dares to forgive an injury.”
“Forgive you? -- Oh, of course, dear, a dozen times a week! We women were created forgiveness but to speak.”
“If the other person injures you, you may forget the injury; but if you injure him you will always remember.”
“Forgive! How many will say, ''forgive,'' and find a sort of absolution in the sound to hate a little longer!”
“This is certain, that a man that studieth revenge keeps his wounds green, which otherwise would heal and do well.”
“Thou must be emptied of that wherewith thou art full, that thou mayest be filled with that whereof thou art empty.”
“Only the brave know how to forgive; it is the most refined and generous pitch of virtue human nature can arrive at.”
“We can easily forgive a child who is afraid of the dark; the real tragedy of life is when men are afraid of the light.”