A week of camp life is worth six months of theoretical teaching in the meeting room.

Your natural inclination is to preach and to warn other travellers of snags in the path, but isn't it better to signal to them some of the joys by the way which they might otherwise miss?

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

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.

Correcting bad habits cannot be done by forbidding or punishment.

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

We never fail when we try to do our duty, we always fail when we neglect to do it.