"Happiness is not mere pleasure, not the outcome of wealth. It is the result of active work rather than passive enjoym…"

"No one can pass through life, any more than he can pass through a bit of country, without leaving tracks behind, and …"

"The most worth-while thing is to try to put happiness into the lives of others."

"Somewhere about 1893 I started teaching Scouting to young soldiers in my regiment. When these young fellows joined th…"

"Leave this world a little better than you found it."

"Here is the hatchet of war, of enmity, of bad feeling, which I now bury in Arrowe," said the Chief, at the same time …"

"The secret of sound education is to get each pupil to learn for himself, instead of instructing him by driving knowle…"

"I went and saw a lot of them at their daily practice of fencing with bamboo sticks and practicing jiu-jitsu to make t…"

"Scouting is not an abstruse or difficult science: rather it is a jolly game if you take it in the right light. In the…"

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