Samuel Johnson Innocence Quotations

An age that melts in unperceiv'd decay, And glides in modest innocence away.

But grant, the virtues of a temp'rate prime Bless with an age exempt from scorn or crime; An age that melts with unperceived decay, And glides in modest Innocence away

To dread no eye and to suspect no tongue is the great prerogative of innocence--an exemption granted only to invariable virtue.