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Samuel Johnson Quotes about Innocence

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

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

Samuel Johnson
Eye, Tongue, Innocence
Samuel Johnson (1761). “The Rambler: In Four Volumes”, p.78

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

Samuel Johnson
Age, Decay, Innocence
Samuel Johnson, Niall Rudd (1981). “Johnson's Juvenal: London and The Vanity of Human Wishes”, Bloomsbury Academic

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

Samuel Johnson
Age, Decay, Innocence
Samuel Johnson (1811). “The Poetical Works of Samuel Johnson: Collated with the Best Editions”, p.27

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