The Pilgrim's Progress by John Bunyan

HOPEFUL: "But it must be a comfort to him, that they did not get his
jewels.”
CHRISTIAN: "It might have been great comfort to him, had he used his
jewels as he should have. Those who told me the story, said that he
made but little use of them because he was so discouraged from being
robbed of his money. Indeed, he forgot about his jewels for a great part
of the rest of his journey. Whenever they came to his mind, and he
began to be comforted with them — then fresh thoughts of his loss
would again come upon him, and those thoughts would swallow up all
comfort."
HOPEFUL: "Alas! poor man. This must have been a great grief to him."
CHRISTIAN: "Grief! Yes, a grief indeed. It would have been so to any of
us — had we been robbed and wounded as he was — and that in a
strange place! It is a wonder that he did not die from grief, poor heart! I
was told that he traveled almost all the rest of the way with nothing but
doleful and bitter complaints — telling to all who overtook him, or
whom he overtook as he journeyed — where and how he was robbed;
who they were that did it; what he lost; how he was wounded; and that
he hardly escaped with his life!”
HOPEFUL: "But it is a wonder that his necessity did not make him sell
or pawn some of his jewels — that he might have something to sustain
him along his journey."
CHRISTIAN: "You are talking childishly; for what could he pawn them
for, or to whom could he sell them? In all that country where he was
robbed, his jewels were not considered valuable; nor did he desire that
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