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.

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

If you make listening and observation your occupation you will gain much more than you can by talk.

"Softly, softly, catchee monkey," is the West African rendering of a very valuable precept. An awful lot of men fail through lack of patient persistence.

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

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

In Scouting, a boy is encouraged to educate himself instead of being instructed.