O. Henry

She plucked from my lapel the invisible strand of lint (the universal act of woman to proclaim ownership).

Mignon McLaughlin

It's innocence when it charms us, ignorance when it doesn't.

Stephen King

The trust of the innocent is the liar's most useful tool.

Lyman Abbott

Every life is a march from innocence, through temptation, to virtue or vice.

Walt Whitman

The future is no more uncertain than the present.