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

" Sir Robert Baden-Powell, Age 80. From his last letters, September, 1940.

"I have gone home." The Dean and Chapter of Westminster Abbey offered a place for Baden-Powell, between the graves of the Unknown Warrior and David Livingstone. After careful consideration, the family declined this great honour as not conforming to B-P's expressed wishes. He was buried in the Africa he loved with full military honours accorded to his rank of LieutenantGeneral and with a guard of Boy Scouts European, African and Asian. His grave in the tiny cemetery of Nyeri, Kenya, is marked by a simple stone that carries his name and the Boy Scout trail sign for "I have gone home."

"Trust should be the basis for all our moral training." Sir Robert Baden-Powell,

"The uniform makes for brotherhood, since when universally adopted it covers up all differences of class and country." Sir Robert Baden-Powell

"There is no teaching to compare with example." Sir Robert Baden-Powell

"An individual step in character training is to put responsibility on the individual." Sir Robert Baden-Powell

"Scouts of the World - Brothers Together" Sir Robert Baden-Powell

"The patrol system leads each boy to see that he has some individual responsibility for the good of his patrol." Sir Robert Baden-Powell

"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 (like Mercy) it is apt to benefit him that giveth as well as him that receives." Sir Robert Baden-Powell Preface to Aids to Scoutmastership (1920)

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: and must be able to place himself in the right plane with his boys as a first step. (2) He must realise the needs, outlooks and desires of the different ages of boy life. (3) He must deal with the individual boy rather than with the mass. (4) He then needs to promote a corporate spirit among his individuals to gain the best results. Sir Robert Baden-Powell Aids to Scoutmastership (1920)

"It is the Patrol System that makes the Troop, and all Scouting for that matter, a real cooperative matter." Sir Robert Baden-Powell Aids to Scoutmastership (1920)

"If a man cannot make his point to keen boys in ten minutes, he ought to be shot !" Robert Baden-Powell The Scouter, November 1928 Reprinted in Footsteps of the Founder, 1987