Happiness is not mere pleasure, not the outcome of wealth. It is the result of active work rather than passive enjoyment of pleasure.

Trust should be the basis for all our moral training.

A Scout smiles and whistles under all circumstances.

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.

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.

We never fail when we try to do our duty, we always fail when we neglect to do it.

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