“The innocent and the beautiful Have no enemy but time”
William Butler Yeats
“Time wins every battle of the superficial”
Michael Shramek
“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
“A girl is Innocence playing in the mud, Beauty standing on its head, and Motherhood dragging a doll by the foot”
Allan Beck
“It is better to risk saving a guilty man than to condemn an innocent one.”
Voltaire
“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
“Being at the center of a film is a burden one takes on with innocence -- the first time. Thereafter, you take it on with trepidation.”
Daniel Day-Lewis