The uniform makes for brotherhood, since when universally adopted it covers up all differences of class and country.

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

I have often urged my young friends, when faced with an adversary, to "play polo" with him; i.e., not to go at him bald-headed but to ride side by side with him and gradually edge him off your track. Never lose your temper with him. If you are in the right there is no need to, if you are in the wrong you can't afford to.

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.

If a man cannot make his point to keen boys in ten minutes, he ought to be shot!

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."

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