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

After forming a cadet corps of boys for assisting as noncombatants during a military campaign in 1900: We then made the discovery that boys, when trusted and relied on, were just as capable and reliable as men.

When you want a thing done, 'Don't do it yourself' is a good motto for Scoutmasters.

O God, help me to win, but in thy wisdom if thou willest me not to win, then O God, make me a good loser.

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.

Success in training the boy depends largely on the Scoutmaster's own personal example.

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