Look wide, beyond your immediate surroundings and limits, and you see things in their right proportion. Look above the level of things around you and see a higher aim and possibility to your work.

We should take care, in inculcating patriotism into our boys and girls, that is a patriotism above the narrow sentiment which usually stops at one's country, and thus inspires jealousy and enmity in dealing with others... Our patriotism should be of the wider, nobler kind which recognises justice and reasonableness in the claims of others and which lead our country into comradeship with...the other nations of the world.

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

A thing that many young fellows don't seem to realism at first is that success depends on oneself and not on a kindly fate, nor on the interest of powerful friends.

Loyalty is a feature in a boy's character that inspires boundless hope.

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.

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