“He that cannot forgive others, breaks the bridge over which he must pass himself; for every man has need to be forgiven.”
“He who cannot forgive breaks the bridge over which he himself must pass.”
“Those who cannot forgive others break the bridge over which they themselves must pass.”
“Because he has never forgiven himself any fault, he can forgive no one else's.”
“For history is a pontoon bridge. Every man walks and works at its building end, and has come as far as he has over the pontoons laid by others he may never have heard of.”
“Man hates something in himself. He has been able to defeat every natural obstacle but himself he cannot win over unless he kills every individual. And this self-hate which goes so closely in hand with self-love is what I wrote about. - in a letter to George Albee”