A fisherman does not bait his hook with food he likes. He uses food the fish likes. So with boys.
The real way to gain happiness is to give it to others.
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.
We must change boys from a 'what can I get' to a 'what can I give' attitude.
A boy is not a sitting-down animal.
It's the spirit within, not the veneer without, that makes a man.
The most important object in Boy Scout training is to educate, not instruct.
Fun, fighting, and feeding! These are the three indispensable elements of the boy's world.
The Scout Oath and Law are our binding disciplinary force.
Scouting is a man's job cut down to a boy's size.
The spirit is there in every boy; it has to be discovered and brought to light.
The Scoutmaster guides the boy in the spirit of an older brother.
A boy is supremely confident of his own power, and dislikes being treated as a child.
The boy is not governed by don't, but is led by do.
Where is there a boy to whom the call of the wild and the open road does not appeal?
Scoutmasters deal with the individual boy rather than with the mass.
Teach Scouts not how to get a living, but how to live.
Scoutmasters need the capacity to enjoy the out-of-doors.
You can only get discipline in the mass by discipline in the individual.
A boy can see the smoke rising from Sioux villages under the shadow of the Albert memorial.
We do not want to make Scout training too soft.
It should be the thing never to mention unfairness of judging when defeated in a contest.
The object of the patrol method is not so much saving the Scoutmaster trouble as to give responsibility to the boy.
When a boy finds someone who takes an interest in him, he responds and follows.
