“Innocence could be considered a discrete state of mind.”
John Shirley
“Today I learned a very valuable lesson: Children are much more aware of what is going on in their heart and mind than you think. They see more than you show and hear more than you say. They can look in your eyes and tell you if you are sincere. They are both fragile, yet resilient at the same time. If you delve deep enough, you will hold the very essence of innocence in your hands.”
Stacy Maddox
“A mind conscious of innocence laughs at the lies of rumor”
Latin Proverb
“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
“Methought I heard a voice cry "Sleep no more! Macbeth does murder sleep," the innocent sleep, Sleep that knits up the ravell'd sleave of care, The death of each day's life, sore labor's bath, Balm of hurt minds, great nature's second course, Chief n”
William Shakespeare
“It is better to risk saving a guilty man than to condemn an innocent one.”
Voltaire
“There seem to be but three ways for a nation to acquire wealth. The first is by war, as the Romans did, in plundering their conquered neighbors. This is robbery. The second by commerce, which is generally cheating. The third by agriculture, the only honest way, wherein man receives a real increase of the seed thrown into the ground, in a kind of continual miracle, wrought by the hand of God in his favor, as a reward for his innocent life and his virtuous industry.”
Benjamin Franklin
