16. When you are trying to get boys to come under good influence you are a fisherman wishful to catch fish. If you bait your hook with the kind of food that you like yourself it is probable that you will not catch many.  You therefore use as bait the food that the fish likes. So... Continue Reading →

12. A Guide should train herself to look for what is beautiful everything so that she may become strong enough in her mind to avoid listening to, or taking part in, anything that is ugly or unclean. 13. Life without an appreciation of beauty is like a dull day without sunshine. Footsteps of the founder: the... Continue Reading →

4. Ambition to do the right is the only ambition that counts. Footsteps of the founder: the Baden-Powell quotations book Baden-Powell of Gilwell, Robert Stephenson Smyth Baden-Powell - Mario Sica - Nuova Fiordaliso - 2002

1. Boys can see adventure in a dirty old duck-puddle, and if the Scoutmaster is a boy-man*, he can see it too. 2. Watch that lad going down the street, his eyes are looking far out.  Is his vision across the prairie or over the gray-backed seas?  At any rate, it isn't here.  Don't I... Continue Reading →