Children are the most reasonable about discipline. When they tell you not to do something, it's always because they know why.

If pimps and thieves were invariably sentenced, all decent people would get to thinking they themselves were constantly innocent.

O how can wicked men seem so steady and untouched with such black hearts, while poor innocents stand like malefactors before them!

To your parents you are still that innocent baby, and sometimes even you will need your father's hand and your mother's lap.

There are many more layers to innocence than one might ever imagine, and we are ever unaware of them until each barrier is breached.

What they, in their innocence, cannot comprehend is that a properly constituted, healthy, decent man never writes, acts, or composes.

Grown-ups have developed an unpleasant habit of comforting themselves for their degradation by pretending that children are childish.

That's the beautiful thing about innocence; even monsters have a pocketful of childhood memories with which to seek comfort with.

I still remember my middle school locker combination. Maybe I should go back to my old locker to see if I left my innocence in there.

I can't bear the thought that a man of lofty mind and heart begins with the ideal of the Madonna and ends with the ideal of Sodom.

The law does not expect a man to be prepared to defend every act of his life which may be suddenly and without notice alleged against him.

Grow in a way without losing much of our inner childlike deep senses embracing truthful, pure, simple relief of appreciation and gratitude.

Women do have an affinity for evil, for believing that no woman is to be trusted, but that some men are too innocent to protect themselves.

I’d prefer you accuse my son, so he can defend his innocence rather than prolong unnecessary guilt." (Spoken by Bracke, told by Eric)

Innocence is a bleeding wound without a bandage, a wound that opens with every casual knock from casual passers-by. Experience is an armour.