It was a maxim with Foxey - our revered father, gentlemen - 'Always suspect everybody'.
Source: (Sampson Brass) Old Curiosity Shop, Ch. 66
-- Charles Dickens, (Feb 7 1812-1870), English novelist, dramatist; He was one of most prolific and popular English novelists, e.g., A Christmas Carol, 1843 & Tale of Two Cities, 1859.