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

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.

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

The secret of getting successful work out of your trained men lies in one nutshell—in the clearness of the instructions they receive.

Be Prepared... the meaning of the motto is that a scout must prepare himself by previous thinking out and practicing how to act on any accident or emergency so that he is never taken by surprise.

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.

We should take care, in inculcating patriotism into our boys and girls, that is a patriotism above the narrow sentiment which usually stops at one's country, and thus inspires jealousy and enmity in dealing with others... Our patriotism should be of the wider, nobler kind which recognises justice and reasonableness in the claims of others and which lead our country into comradeship with...the other nations of the world.