All societies need elites. Whether for pilots, brain surgeons, or spec — Excellence

"The Good of man is the active exercise of his souls faculties in conformity with excellence or virtue, or if there be several human excellences or virtues, in conformity with the best and most perfect among them."

"The excellent man is he who condemns what he finds in his mind without previous effort, and only accepts as worthy of him what is still far above him and what requires a further effort in order to be reached."

"Warren has a saying, "Intensity is the price of excellence."

"Above all, dont be satisfied to do only fairly well what ought to be done very well. Someone is going to do it better than anyone else; why not you?"

"How miserable is the condition of men when the better a thing is, the further it recedes from our sight and the less it is recognized."

"Difficult, say you? Difficult to be a man of virtue, truly good, shaped and fashioned without flaw in the perfect figure of four-squared excellence, in body and mind, in act and thought?"