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

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.

We must change boys from a 'what can I get' to a 'what can I give' attitude.

These pictures are my heart. And if my heart was a canvas, every square inch of it would be painted over with you.

... in the world, it will be women, mostly colored and poor. women will have to bury children, and support themselves through grief.

I have learned to seek my happiness by limiting my desires, rather than in attempting to satisfy them.

One may as well be asleep as to read for anything but to improve his mind and morals, and regulate his conduct.

I've been doing Pride and Prejudice all summer, so suddenly the chance to be holed up with a bunch of marines is quite attractive, and probably a necessary dose of male energy.

Microsoft has a new version out, Windows XP, which according to everybody is the 'most reliable Windows ever.' To me, this is like saying that asparagus is 'the most articulate vegetable ever.'

I expect to get paid if I do something.

If someone is truly converted, they will publicly confess Christ in word and deed. That does not mean presenting them in front of the church on the night of their supposed conversion.

I wonder what the vintners buy one half so precious as the stuff they sell.

We never know a greater character unless there is in ourselves something congenial to it.