Forgiveness is the fragrance of the violet which still clings fast to the heel that crushed it.

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

Forgiveness to the injured does belong, But they ne'er pardon who have done the wrong.

Good-nature and good-sense must ever join; To err is human, to forgive, divine.

He who forgives readily only invites offense.

Hear Thou in heaven Thy dwelling place: and when Thou hearest, forgive.

His heart was as great as the world, but there was no room in it to hold the memory of a wrong.

I never forgive, but I always forget.

I pardon him as God shall pardon me.

If we practice and eye for an eye and a tooth for a tooth, soon the whole world will be blind and toothless.