~ Innocence is like polished armor; it adorns and defends. ~
~ Every life is march from innocence,through temptation, to virtue or vice. ~
~ Once you start asking questions,innocence is gone. ~
~ The silence often of pure innocence Persuades when speaking fails. ~
~ Innocence is the weakest defense. Innocence has a single voice that can only say over and over again, "I didn't do it." Guilt has a thousand voices, all of them lies. ~
~ Ignorance is learned; innocence is forgotten. ~
~ The innocence that feels no risk and is taught no caution is more vulnerable than guilt, and oftener assailed. ~
~ To be innocent is to be not guilty; but to be virtuous is to overcome our evil inclinations. ~
~ Innocence and mystery never dwell long together. ~
~ Nothing looks so like innocence as an indiscretion. ~
~ The essential self is innocent, and when it tastes its own innocence knows that it lives for ever. ~
~ People who shut their eyes to reality simply invite their own destruction, and anyone who insists on remaining in a state of innocence long after that innocence is dead turns himself into a monster. ~