Try to leave this world a little better than you found it and, when your turn comes to die, you can die happy in feeling that at any rate you have not wasted your time but have done your best

Success in training the boy depends largely on the Scoutmaster's own personal example.

Girls should be brought up to be comrades and helpers, not to be dolls. They should take a real and not a visionary share in the welfare of the nation.

Leave this world a little better than you found it.

A Scout is never taken by surprise; he knows exactly what to do when anything unexpected happens.

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.