When lightning strikes, the mouse is sometimes burned with the farm..

A man had better starve at once than lose his innocence in the process of getting his bread..

To vice, innocence must always seem only a superior kind of chicanery..

When we see the face of God we shall know that we have always known it. He has been a party to, has made, sustained and moved moment by moment within….

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

I project a definite innocence. A lot of that is just the way I grew up..

Men are as innocent as the morning to the unsuspicious..

But we were all young once. It passes, like innocence and a sense of fair play. The only thing left in the end is a good instinct for survival..

We each begin in innocence. We all become guilty..