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

Leave this world a little better than you found it.

It is called in our schools 'beastliness', and this is about the best name for it... should it become a habit it quickly destroys both health and spirits; he becomes feeble in body and mind, and often ends in a lunatic asylum.

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.

The uniform makes for brotherhood, since when universally adopted it covers up all differences of class and country.

Try to leave this world a little better than you found it and, when your turn comes to die, you can die happy in feeling that at any rate you have not wasted your time but have done your best

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