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

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.

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.

A man carries out suggestions the more wholeheartedly when he understands their aim.

"Be Prepared." "Be prepared for what?" "Why, for any old thing."

The secret of sound education is to get each pupil to learn for himself, instead of instructing him by driving knowledge into him on a stereotyped system.