“Whoever blushes confesses guilt, true innocence never feels shame.”
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
“It is better to risk saving a guilty man than to condemn an innocent one.”
Voltaire
“He that is conscious of guilt cannot bear the innocence of others: So they will try to reduce all others to their own level.”
Charles James Fox
“Glory built on selfish principles, is shame and guilt”
William Cowper
“No man's guilt is not yours, nor is any man's innocence a thing apart.”
William Saroyan
“Virtue, dear friend, needs no defense, The surest guard is innocence: None knew, till guilt created fear, What darts or poisoned arrows were”
Horace
“The innocence that feels no risk and is taught no caution, is more vulnerable than guilt, and oftener assailed.”
Nathaniel Parker Willis