The ineffable joy of forgiving and being forgiven forms an ecstasy that might well arouse the envy of the gods.

In Lake Wobegon, we don't forget mistakes.

Against naked force the only possible defense is naked force. The aggressor makes the rules for such a war; the defenders have no alternative but matching destruction with more destruction, slaughter with greater slaughter.

The United States grants the favors of the second, third, or fifty-seventh chance, and its citizens remain free to invent for themselves whatever character draws a crowd or pays the rent.

Did man e'er live Saw priest or woman yet forgive?

If there is something to pardon in everything, there is also something to condemn.

What power has love but forgiveness? In other words by its intervention what has been done can be undone. What good is it otherwise?

They who forgive most shall be most forgiven.

The noblest vengeance is to forgive.

The kindest and happiest pair Will find occasion to forbear; And something, every day they live, To pity, and perhaps forgive.