The weak can never forgive. Forgiveness is the attribute of the strong.

Forgiveness is the economy of the heart... forgiveness saves the expense of anger, the cost of hatred, the waste of spirits.

Love is an act of endless forgiveness, a tender look which becomes a habit.

I shall be an autocrat, that's my trade and the good Lord will forgive me, that's his.

I do not bring forgiveness with me, nor forgetfulness. The only ones who can forgive are dead the living have no right to forget.

God pardons like a mother, who kisses the offense into everlasting forgiveness.

Forgiveness is the giving, and so the receiving, of life.

The first step in forgiveness is the willingness to forgive.

Forgiveness is indifference. Forgiveness is impossible while love lasts.

Forgiveness is the fragrance that the violet sheds on the heel that has crushed it.