In fact, in the far North one sees the northern lights facing south!

- Vincent Massey

Truth must the guide of those who hold the power; but humility is their sign, the promise that their privileges are in safe hands.

- Vincent Massey

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…

- Vincent Massey

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

- Vincent Massey

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

- Vincent Massey

I have had what might be called a post graduate course in the most important subject for all Canadians - Canada itself.

- Vincent Massey

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

- Vincent Massey

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 o…

- Vincent Massey

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

- Vincent Massey