He doesn't believe in the kind of Heaven that the ministers talk about or any eternal hell.

He says that nobody knows anything about the hereafter, except that God is a kind and forgiving father and that all men are His children.

He says that we can only serve God by serving each other.

He seems to think that every man, good or bad, black or white, rich or poor, is his brother.

He thinks that Henry Clay, next to Daniel Webster, is the greatest man in the country.