Football is a grand game for developing a lad physically and also morally, for he learns to play with good temper and unselfishness, to play in his place, and to play the game, and these are the best of training for any game of life.

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.

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.

Leave this world a little better than you found it.

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

If a man cannot make his point to keen boys in ten minutes, he ought to be shot!