Experience, which destroys innocence, also leads one back to it.

It is well for the heart to be naive and for the mind not to be.

Nobody ever was - or ever again will be - as green as I was the day I landed in New York. That shade has been discontinued.

The truly innocent are those who not only are guiltless themselves but who think others are.

The knowingness of little girls is hidden underneath their curls.

Through our own recovered innocence we discern the innocence of our neighbors.

Thrice happy state again to be The trustful infant on the knee, Who lets his rosy fingers play About his mother's neck, and knows Nothing beyond his mother's eyes!

Whoever blushes is already guilty; true innocence is ashamed of nothing.

Innocence has a friend in heaven.

Innocence is ashamed of nothing.

If you would live innocently, seek solitude.

He's armed without that's innocent within.

It is innocence that is full and experience that is empty. It is innocence that wins and experience that loses.

The great man is he who does not lose his child's-heart.

Those who are incapable of committing great crimes do not readily suspect them in others.

The courage of children and beasts is a function of innocence.

Innocence dwells with Wisdom, but never with Ignorance.

Tis e'er the lot of the innocent in the world, to fly to the wolf for succor from the lion.

It is only rarely that one can see in a little boy the promise of a man, but one can always see in a little girl the threat of a woman.

Until Eve gave him the apple, Adam didn't even know he wasn't wearing underpants.