"As to my studies, I have not been entirely idle, though I cannot say that I have yet perfected anything. What I have done is something in the way of those Fables I have already published.

"All the money I get is saving, so that by habit there may be some hopes (if I grow richer) of my becoming a miser. All misers have their excuses. The motive to my parsimony is independence."[[7]]

Footnotes:

[1]

Swift: Works (ed. Scott), XVII, p. 358

[2]

Ibid., XVII, p. 342.