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Innocence is not virtue. Virtue demands the active employment of an ardent mind in the promotion of the general good. No man can be eminently virtuous who is not accustomed to an extensive range of reflection.

Innocence is one of the most exciting things in the world.

Innocence is thought charming because it offers delightful possibilities for exploitation.

Innocence is always unsuspicious.

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

Innocence can be more powerful than experience.

Innocence always calls mutely for protection when we would be so much wiser to guard ourselves against it: innocence is like a dumb leper who has lost his bell, wandering the world, meaning no harm.

Innocence is like a dumb leper who has lost his bell, wandering the world, meaning no harm.

Lust and greed are more gullible than innocence.