Leave this world a little better than you found it.

It is risky to order a boy not to do something; it immediately opens to him the adventure of doing it.

To get hold of your boys you must be their friend.

Scouting is not an abstruse or difficult science: rather it is a jolly game if you take it in the right light. In the same time it is educative, and (like Mercy) it is apt to benefit him that giveth as well as him that receives.

"Softly, softly, catchee monkey," is the West African rendering of a very valuable precept. An awful lot of men fail through lack of patient persistence.

The more responsibility the Scoutmaster gives his patrol leaders, the more they will respond.

"Be Prepared." "Be prepared for what?" "Why, for any old thing."