"Room was made for the sorrower, who was followed by two or three female friends."
"It was one thing to make light of a young man's sorrows in love, but another to do it when the sorrower was Xavier's age."
"Perhaps no other thing has such power to lift the poor out of his poverty, the wretched out of his misery, to make the burden-bearer forget his burden, the sick his sufferings, the sorrower his grief, the downtrodden his degradation, as books."