We are not a club or a Sunday school class, but a school of the woods.

The spirit is there in every boy; it has to be discovered and brought to light.

Vigorous Scout games are the best form of physical education because most of them bring in moral education.

A fisherman does not bait his hook with food he likes. He uses food the fish likes. So with boys.

The most important object in Boy Scout training is to educate, not instruct.

The real way to gain happiness is to give it to others.

Boys can see adventure in a dirty old duck puddle, and if the Scoutmaster is a boys' man he can see it, too.

You can only get discipline in the mass by discipline in the individual.

The object of the patrol method is not so much saving the Scoutmaster trouble as to give responsibility to the boy.

Scouting is a game for boys under the leadership of boys under the direction of a man.

The Good Turn will educate the boy out of the groove of selfishness.

To enjoy the magic of life, smile with love.

Love is not complicated—just smile, hug, kiss, be kind, and repeat.

Would your city weep if your church did not exist?

I have always considered marriage as the most interesting event of one's life, the foundation of happiness or misery.

He who has made it a practice to lie and deceive his father, will be the most daring in deceiving others.

Better to be ordinary people in a superior country than to be a president in a disreputable country.

Physical limitedness can only be surpassed by mental unlimitedness!

Oddly enough, the lack of money makes us a little bit more creative in a sense.

Rivalry doesn't help anybody.

My job as a parent is a temporary responsibility with eternal consequences.