“The only forgiveness I can muster is to call him human. ”
“Humanity must forgive 'Humanity', for only then can we be Humane.”
“Sometimes forgiveness is a tough thing to muster up. And forgetting? Well, you have to find the forgiveness first. Hopefully the forgetting will come...with time.”
“Procrastination is not Laziness", I tell him. "It is fear. Call it by its right name, and forgive yourself.”
“She [Beatrice] alone was still real for him, still implied meaning in the world, and beauty. Her nature became his landmark - what Melville would call, with more sobriety than we can now muster, his Greenwich Standard ...”
“I can forgive, but I cannot forget, is only another way of saying, I will not forgive. Forgiveness ought to be like a cancelled note - torn in two, and burned up, so that it never can be shown against one. ”