Look wide, and even when you think you are looking wide - look wider still.

A Scout smiles and whistles under all circumstances.

To get hold of your boys you must be their friend.

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.

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

We should take care, in inculcating patriotism into our boys and girls, that is a patriotism above the narrow sentiment which usually stops at one's country, and thus inspires jealousy and enmity in dealing with others... Our patriotism should be of the wider, nobler kind which recognises justice and reasonableness in the claims of others and which lead our country into comradeship with...the other nations of the world.