"I am a warm advocate of the cause of humanity."

"I am a man of virtue, and I will be virtuous in all things."

"I was answered that I must join none of them [the religious sects of the day], for they were all wrong; and the Personage who addressed me said that all their creeds were an abomination in his sight; …"

"If I am to be damned for going to hell with my friends, I will go to hell with my friends."

"If I had forty wives in the United States, they did not know it, and could not substantiate it, neither did I ask any lawyer, judge, or magistrate for them. I live above the law, and so do this people…"