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.
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.
If you ask a Negro where he's been, he'll tell you where he's going.
Open suspecting of others comes of secretly condemning ourselves.
Suspicion is a heavy armor and with its weight it impedes more than it protects.
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.
Suspicion is most often useless pain.
Suspicion is not less an enemy to virtue than to happiness; he that is already corrupt is naturally suspicious, and he that becomes suspicious will quickly be corrupt.
Suspicion is one of the morbid reactions by which an organism defends itself and seeks another equilibrium.
Suspicion is the cancer of friendship.
Suspicion is the companion of mean souls, and the bane of all good society.
The suspicious mind believes more than it doubts. It believes in a formidable and ineradicable evil lurking in every person.
There is nothing makes a man suspect much, more than to know little, and therefore men should remedy suspicion by procuring to know more, and not keep their suspicions in smother.
We are paid for our suspicions by finding what we suspected.
We have to distrust each other. It is our only defense against betrayal.
What loneliness is more lonely than distrust?