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.

After forming a cadet corps of boys for assisting as noncombatants during a military campaign in 1900: We then made the discovery that boys, when trusted and relied on, were just as capable and reliable as men.

The more responsibility the Scoutmaster gives his patrol leaders, the more they will respond.

See things from the boy's point of view.

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

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.

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.