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

Happiness is open to all, since, when you boil it down, it merely consists of contentment with what you have got and doing what you can for other people.

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.

A Scout smiles and whistles under all circumstances.

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.

If a man cannot make his point to keen boys in ten minutes, he ought to be shot!

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