Vincent Massey

"The great menace of civilization in the present is that we offer an education with too little regard for the roots."

"We can best serve the cause of Canadian unity and understanding by living first in and through and then beyond our own immediate traditions."

"The neglect of the humanities in present-day education is doubtless not a cause but a symptom of an age."

"In opening and conquering a country great and wild and rich - a country indeed not yet fully known or conquered - we have still to learn more about ourselves and each other."

"It is the University's function to turn out well-balanced persons with an understanding of themselves and of their place in life."

"Old wives' tales are not enough in a day when old wives and old men, too, are constantly moving away from their labours."

"We are not born of the passions of war or of the fervours of revolution. And we grew quietly into the realization that, set as we are in a great wide land, with all our differences, there are certain …"

"Rational comprehension of the universe is not enough. We must call to our aid not merely reason, but the vision and the spiritual insight of the ages. These things we must seek."