Sir Isaac Pitman

“Every boy and girl ought to be taught shorthand.”

“Well-arranged time is the surest mark of a well-arranged mind.”

“Perseverance is a prime quality in every pursuit. All difficulties yield to perseverance.”

“I am a vegetarian and a teetotaler, because I have found that this mode of life is the best for my body and my mind.”

“The advantages of phonography are many and great; its disadvantages are few and small.”

“If you wish to be well, you must live on simple food, drink pure water, and breathe pure air.”

“A good character is the best tombstone.”

“Accuracy is the twin brother of honesty; inaccuracy, of dishonesty.”