"Softly, softly, catchee monkey," is the West African rendering of a very valuable precept. An awful lot of men fail through lack of patient persistence.

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

The patrol system leads each boy to see that he has some individual responsibility for the good of his patrol.

See things from the boy's point of view.

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.

If you make listening and observation your occupation you will gain much more than you can by talk.

In a difficult situation one never-failing guide is to ask yourself: "What would Christ have done?" Then do it-as nearly as you can.