Football is a grand game for developing a lad physically and also morally, for he learns to play with good temper and unselfishness, to play in his p….

The Scoutmaster guides the boy in the spirit of an older brother... He has simply to be a boy-man, that is: (1) He must have the boy spirit in him: a….

In Scouting, a boy is encouraged to educate himself instead of being instructed..

The Scoutmaster teaches boys to play the game by doing so himself..

See things from the boy's point of view..

Success in training the boy depends largely on the Scoutmaster's own personal example..

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

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 peo….

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 ….

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

When you want a thing done, 'Don't do it yourself' is a good motto for Scoutmasters..

Yet one more item is needed to complete success, and that is the rendering of service to others in the community. Without this the mere satisfaction ….

Varied are the ideas of what constitutes "success," e.g. money, position, power, achievement, honours, and the like. But these are not open to every ….

The great thing that strikes you on looking back is how quickly you have come-how very brief is the span of life on this earth. The warning that one ….

A Scout is never taken by surprise; he knows exactly what to do when anything unexpected happens..

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 si….

Correcting bad habits cannot be done by forbidding or punishment..

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 em….

The more responsibility the Scoutmaster gives his patrol leaders, the more they will respond..

Girls should be brought up to be comrades and helpers, not to be dolls. They should take a real and not a visionary share in the welfare of the natio….