"Every morning was a cheerful invitation to make my life of equal simplicity, and I may say innocence, with Nature herself."
"It is better to risk saving a guilty person than to condemn an innocent one."
"There is an innocence in admiration: it occurs in one who has not yet realized that they might one day be admired."
"Every act of rebellion expresses a nostalgia for innocence and an appeal to the essence of being."