Justice while she winks at crimes, Stumbles on innocence sometimes.

Remorse is virtue's root; its fair increase are fruits of innocence and blessedness.

Writing novels preserves you in a state of innocence - a lot passes you by - simply because your attention is otherwise diverted.

Innocence of heart and violence of feeling are necessary in any kind of superior achievement: The arts cannot exist without them.

Those who improve with age embrace the power of personal growth and personal achievement and begin to replace youth with wisdom, innocence with understanding, and lack of purpose with self-actualization.

In an age robbed of religious symbols, going to the shops replaces going to the church. We have a free choice, but at a price. We can win experience, but never achieve innocence. Marx knew that the epic activities of the modern world involve not lance and sword but dry goods.

Never resist a sentence you like, in which language takes its own pleasure and in which, after having abused it for so long, you are stupefied by its innocence.

There is no aphrodisiac like innocence.

Once you start asking questions, innocence is gone.

America fell in love with the innocence of a kid who just was honest, saying, I did the best I could, and I had no formal training.

Every life is a march from innocence, through temptation, to virtue or vice.

Every life is march from innocence, through temptation, to virtue or vice.