Even in his most oppressed days, he considered himself, by the grace of heaven, to be more free--free in a far truer and higher sense--than thousands of those who owed allegiance to no master's will.

Whether he had saved any small sum of money, or whether his needs were supplied by the many who loved and honoured him, we do not know.

He was a man who was content with the barest necessaries of life, and we may be sure that he would have refused to be indebted to any one for more than these.
It is probable that he never married.

This may have been due to that shade of indifference to the female character of which we detect traces here and there in his writings.

In one passage he complains that women seemed to think of nothing but admiration and getting married; and, in another, he observes, almost with a sneer, that the Roman ladies were fond of Plato's _Republic_ because he allowed some very liberal marriage regulations.