“Skylark,Have you seen a valley green with SpringWhere my heart can go a-journeying,Over the shadows in the rainTo a blossom covered lane?And in your lonely flight,Haven't you heard the music in the night,Wonderful music,Faint as a will-o-the-wisp,Crazy as a loon,Sad as a gypsy serenading the moon.”
Quote by Johnny Mercer

Johnny MercerJohnny Mercer was an American lyricist, composer, and singer, renowned for his significant contributions to the American music industry, especially during the Great Depression and World War II era. His career spanned over five decades, during which he penned over 1,000 songs, many of which have become enduring standards in the American songbook. more
“I remember too, a distant bell...and stars that fell...like the rainout of the blue.”
“When my life is throughAnd the angels ask me to recallThe thrill of them allThen I shall tell themI remember you”
“There's a long goodbye,and it happens every day,when a passerbyinvites your eyeto come away.Even as you smile a quick helloyou let her go,you let the moment fly...Too late you turn your head,you know you've saidthe Long Goodbye.”
“I know all the songs that the cowboys know'bout the big corral where the doggies go,'Cause I learned them all on the radio.Yippie yi yo kayah”
“No creature hath the like resemblance to the divine nature, as light hath. He doth not only dwell in light, but he is light. Light is a pure, bright, clear, spiritual, unmixed substance. God is infinitely so.”
Source: The Miscellaneous Works of the Rev. Matthew Henry: Containing in Addition to Those Heretofore Published, Numerous Sermons Now First Printed from the Original Mss. : an Appendix on what Christ is Made to Believers,in Forty Real Benefits,by Philip Henry... : Funeral Sermons for Mr. and Mrs. Henry, by the Rev. Matthew Henry : Funeral Sermons on Mr. Matthew Henry, by W. Tong, John Reynolds, and Dr. Williams
“What harrowing is after sowing, the same is meditation after hearing--it hides the word.”
Source: The Life of the Rev. Philip Henry, A.M.: With Funeral Sermons for Mr. and Mrs. Henry
“A garment that is double dyed, dipped again and again, will retain the color a great while; so a truth which is the subject of meditation.”
Source: The miscellaneous works of the Rev. Matthew Henry: containing in addition to those heretofore published, numerous sermons and papers, now first printed from the original manuscripts. With forty sermons on what Christ is made to believers, by Philip Henry; funeral sermons for Mr. and Mrs. Henry, by the Rev. Matthew Henry; funeral sermons on Mr. Matthew Henry, by W. Tong, John Reynolds, and Dr. Williams
“When Christ was about to leave the world, He made His will. His soul He committed to His father; His body He bequeathed to Joseph to be decently interred; His clothes fell to the soldiers; His mother He left to the care of John; but what should He leave to His poor disciples that had left all for Him? Silver and gold He had none; but He left them that which was infinitely better, His peace.”
Source: Bible commentary - Gospel of John
“Our creature comforts”
Source: The pleasantness of a religious life opened and proved
“Those may justly be reckoned void of understanding that do not bless and praise God; nor do men ever rightly use their reason till they begin to be religious, nor live as men till they live to the glory of God. As reason is the substratum or subject of religion (so that creatures which have no reason are not capable of religion), so religion is the crown and glory of reason, and we have our reason in vain, and shall one day wish we had never had it, if we do not glorify God with it.”
Source: Matthew HenryÕs Commentary on the Whole Bible: Volume IV-III - Ezekiel to Hosea