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The glory of the nation rests in the character of her men. And character comes from boyhood. Thus every boy read more
The glory of the nation rests in the character of her men. And character comes from boyhood. Thus every boy is a challenge to his elders.
The boy who expects every morning to open into a new world finds that today is like yesterday, but he read more
The boy who expects every morning to open into a new world finds that today is like yesterday, but he believes tomorrow will be different
Boys are beyond the range of anybody's sure understanding, at least when they are between the ages of 18 months read more
Boys are beyond the range of anybody's sure understanding, at least when they are between the ages of 18 months and 90 years.
Men want power in order to do something. Boys want power in order to be something.
Men want power in order to do something. Boys want power in order to be something.
When you can't do anything else to a boy, you can make him wash his face.
When you can't do anything else to a boy, you can make him wash his face.
Some parents say it is toy guns that make boys warlike. But give a boy a rubber duck and he read more
Some parents say it is toy guns that make boys warlike. But give a boy a rubber duck and he will seize its neck like the butt of a pistol and shout "Bang!"
There is nothing so aggravating as a fresh boy who is too old to ignore and too young to kick.
There is nothing so aggravating as a fresh boy who is too old to ignore and too young to kick.
Every genuine boy is a rebel and an anarch. If he were allowed to develop according to his own instincts, read more
Every genuine boy is a rebel and an anarch. If he were allowed to develop according to his own instincts, his own inclinations, society would undergo such a radical transformation as to make the adult revolutionary cower and cringe.
There comes a time in every rightly constructed boy's life when he has a raging desire to go somewhere and read more
There comes a time in every rightly constructed boy's life when he has a raging desire to go somewhere and dig for hidden treasure.
