Suspicion is far more to be wrong than right; more often unjust than just. It is no friend to virtue, and always an enemy to happiness.

Better to be occasionally cheated than perpetually suspicious.

He that is already corrupt is naturally suspicious, and he that becomes suspicious will quickly become corrupt.

A new disease? I know not, new or old, but it may well be called poor mortals plague for, like a pestilence, it doth infect the houses of the brain till not a thought, or motion, in the mind, be free from the black poison of suspect.

Suspicion is the companion of mean souls, and the bane of all good society.

If you ask a Negro where he's been, he'll tell you where he's going.