My great wish is to go on in a strict but silent performance of my duty; to avoid attracting notice, and to keep my name out of the newspapers.
Thomas JeffersonRequired to be constantly recumbent I write slowly and with difficulty.... Weakened in body by infirmities and in mind by age, now far gone into my 83rd year, reading one newspaper only and forgetting immediately what I read.
Thomas JeffersonWhen we get piled upon one another in large cities, as in Europe, we shall become as corrupt as Europe.
Thomas Jefferson