“Innocence most often is a good fortune and not a virtue.”
Anatole France
“Virtue, dear friend, needs no defense, The surest guard is innocence: None knew, till guilt created fear, What darts or poisoned arrows were”
Horace
“Every trait of beauty may be referred to some virtue, as to innocence, candor, generosity, modesty, or heroism. St. Pierre To cultivate the sense of the beautiful, is one of the most effectual ways of cultivating an appreciation of the divine goodness.”
Christian Nevell Bovee
“Every life is march from innocence, through temptation, to virtue or vice.”
Lyman Abbott
“Every life is a march from innocence, through temptation, to virtue or vice.”
“A wicked Hero will turn his back to an innocent coward.”
Benjamin Franklin
“The innocent who could laugh with joy didn't dare to because they were sitting beside a guilty friend who didn't dare to”
Mark Twain