We must travel our journey each of us; what does it matter if the road has been good or bad when we have reached the goal?
For my part religion neither comforts nor frightens me now at the last.

I will stand or fall upon the record of my life.

I have done evil in it and I have done good; the evil I have done because nature and temptation have been too strong for me at times, the good also because my heart prompted me to it.

Well, it is finished, and after all death cannot be so terrible, seeing that every human being is born to undergo it, together with all living things.

Whatever else is false, I hold this to be true, that God exists and is more merciful than those who preach Him would have us to believe.' And he ceased exhausted.
Often since then I have thought of his words, and I still think of them now that my own hour is so near.