“Innocence most often is a good fortune and not a virtue.”
Anatole France
“All things truly wicked start from an innocence.”
Ernest Hemingway
“A babe in the house is a well-spring of pleasure, a messenger of peace and love, a resting place for innocence on earth, a link between angels and men”
Martin Fraquhar Tupper
“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 life is a march from innocence, through temptation, to virtue or vice.”
Lyman Abbott
“It is better to risk saving a guilty man than to condemn an innocent one.”
Voltaire
“Every life is march from innocence, through temptation, to virtue or vice.”