Biography is one of the new terrors of death.

- John Arbuthnot

Mathematical studies may serve for a pleasant entertainment for those hours which young men are apt to throw away upon their vices.

- John Arbuthnot

Unjust force can never give any just dominion.

- John Arbuthnot

Truth can never be an enemy to true religion, which appears always to the best advantage when it is most examined.

- John Arbuthnot

Truth is the same thing to the understanding, as Music to the ear, and Beauty to the eye.

- John Arbuthnot

To bliss unknown by lofty soul aspires, My lot unequal to my vast desires.

- John Arbuthnot

Never contradict. Never explain. Never apologize. (Those are the secrets of a happy life!)

- John Arbuthnot

All political parties die at last of swallowing their own lies.

- John Arbuthnot

He warns the heads of parties against believing their own lies.

- John Arbuthnot