Scouting is not an abstruse or difficult science: rather it is a jolly game if you take it in the right light. At the same time it is educative, and (like Mercy) it is apt to benefit him that giveth as well as him that receiveth.

written by Lord Baden-Powell of Gilwell, OM, GCMG, GCVO, KCB
as the Preface to Aids to Scoutmastership