"No, it is not only our fate but our business to lose innocence, and once we have lost that, it is futile to attempt a picnic in Eden." - Elizabeth Bowen, Orion III

"Innocence is always unsuspicious." - Haliburton

"Unto the pure all things are pure." - BIBLE, Titus 1:15

"To vice, innocence must always seem only a superior kind of chicanery." - OUIDA, Wisdom, Wit and Pathos

"True, conscious Honor is to feel no sin,
He's armed without that's innocent within;
Be this thy Screen, and this thy Wall of Brass."
- ALEXANDER POPE, Imitations of Horace

"Whoever blushes is already guilty; true innocence is ashamed of nothing." - JEAN-JACQUES ROUSSEAU, Émile

"The innocent and the beautiful
Have no enemy but time."
- W.B. YEATS, In Memory of Eva Gore-Booth and Con Markiewicz