I said in my heart, purgatory is but a lie made to keep pace with their marvelous legends and frequent miracles! There is not a purgatory, or they would fear the retribution in store for them.

I had none to teach me aright.
I mocked at the thought of religion.

I said there is none on the earth--it is merely a system of gain, and all that constitutes the difference is, that some are by nature more of devils, and others gifted with milder hearts.

But I saw Mary--pure angel that she is--I saw her with the sick and the dying: she railed not at our priest, as he at her.

She carried her Bible to the bed of death, and told them to look to God for themselves.