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.

Commemorative stone in the floor of the Chapel of St. George in Westminster Abbey, London, dedicated in 1947: TO THE MEMORY OF ROBERT Baden-Powell CHIEF SCOUT OF THE WORLD 1857-1941 Upon one side of the stone was the badge of the Boy Scouts, the arrow-head to point the true way as it had pointed the way for sailors and navigators from the time of the earliest maps; and on the other the badge of the Girl Guides-the three-leafed clover.

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

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

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.

Mind you, I have had in my sojourn on earth as good a time of it as any man, so I can speak with some knowledge. A writer in the Manchester Guardian who is unknown to me lately described me as "the richest man in the world." That sounds a pretty big order, but when I come to think it out I believe he is not far wrong. A rich man is not necessarily a man with a whole pot of money but a man who is really happy. And I am that.