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The Salt Cellars, Volume 1: Being a Collection of Proverbs, Together with Homily Notes Thereon is unavailable, but you can change that!

The Salt Cellars is the quotable Spurgeon. These volumes contain thousands of sermon excerpts, proverbs, and other aphorisms taken from the vast corpus of Spurgeon’s writing and preaching.

An ass may think he’s Solomon; but he isn’t. “If a man think himself to be something, when he is nothing, he deceiveth himself.”—Gal. 6:3. An early start makes easy stages. To begin promptly causes work to go pleasantly; whereas delay keeps one in a perpetual heat. An easy fool Is a knave’s tool. And he will handle him for his own purposes, laughing in his sleeve all the while. An empty man is full of himself. An empty purse makes a bashful buyer. He is afraid that his bid will be taken, and then
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