“If you are not already dead, forgive. Rancor is heavy, it is worldly; leave it on earth: die light.”

“Forgive yourself before you die. Then forgive others.”

“Leave him alone. He has already met his judge. I wage war on the living, not the dead.”

“I can forgive you for leaving, but not for coming back.”

“I wandered the earth a mercenary, daring the gods to kill me but surviving because part of me was already dead.”

“For myself I am too heavy, and for you too light.”

“You will never forgive anyone more than God has already forgiven you.”

“The past is dead; let it bury its dead. Let me beseech you to lay aside all rancor, all bitter sectional feeling. Make your place in the ranks of those who will bring about a consummation devoutly to be wished – a reunited country.”

“Thus I die. Thus, thus, thus.
Now I am dead,
Now I am fled,
My soul is in the sky.
Tongue, lose thy light.
Moon take thy flight.
Now die, die, die, die.”

“Give without expecting any worldly reward here on Earth.”