Make good scouts of yourselves, become good rifle shots so that if it becomes necessary that you defend your families and your country that you can do it.

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

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.

Sunday is a day of rest. Loafing is not rest.

See things from the boy's point of view.

The first step to this end is to develop peace and goodwill within our borders, by training our youth of both sexes to its practice as their habit of life, so that the jealousies of town against town, class against class and sect against sect no longer exist; and then to extend this good feeling beyond our frontiers towards our neighbours.

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.