All religions were, in his eyes, equally true and equally false.

Superior morality was owing principally to the influences of race and climate; and devotional experiences (to judge, at least, from American camp-meetings and popish-cities) the results of a diseased nervous system.
Upon a man so hard and strong this fearful blow had fallen, and, to do him justice, he took it like a man.

He wandered on and on for an hour or more, up the hills, and into the forest, talking to himself.
"Poor old Willy! I should have liked to have looked into his honest face before he went, if only to make sure that we were good friends.
I used to plague him sadly with my tricks.

But what is the use of wishing for what cannot be?
I recollect I had just the same feeling when John died; and yet I got over it after a time, and was as cheerful as if he were alive again, or had never lived at all.

And so I shall get over this.