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

Young men, of course, don't want to be guided by old back numbers, but at the same time I know that in my own case I gained a lot by studying the characters of the chiefs under whom I served from time to time. Lord Wolseley, for instance, said: "Use your common sense rather than book instructions."

The most worth-while thing is to try to put happiness into the lives of others.

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

It is called in our schools 'beastliness', and this is about the best name for it... should it become a habit it quickly destroys both health and spirits; he becomes feeble in body and mind, and often ends in a lunatic asylum.

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.

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