THE WIT AND WISDOM OF ONE OF THE GREATEST MEN OF THE 19TH CENTURY. "I shall venture to give some of the homely cautions which have served my turn, and perhaps they may be of use to others as they have been to me." The wit and wisdom of Spurgeon is refreshing and thought provoking to any generation ... "Give to a pig when it grunts, and to a child when it cries, and you will have a fine pig and a spoiled child." "Talking comes by nature, but it needs a good deal of training to learn to be quiet." "Neither the wise nor the wealthy can help him who has long refused to help himself." "Expect to get half of what you earn, a quarter of what is your due, and none of what you have lent, and you will be near the mark; but to look for a fortune to fall from the moon is to play the fool with a vengeance." As one man of his day wrote of his style, it is "at times familiar, at times declamatory, but always happy, and often eloquent." Spurgeon spans the denominational lines. His focus being that "good wisdom is that which will turn out to be wise in the end; seek it, friends, and seek it at the hands of the wisest of all teachers, the Lord Jesus." AKA - John Ploughman's Talk