He Had Me At Bacon

I had rather be shut up in a very modest cottage with my books, my family and a few old friends, dining on simple bacon, and letting the world roll on as it liked, than to occupy the most splendid post, which any human power can give.

-- Thomas Jefferson (1743 - 1826), third president of the United States (1801–1809), Letter to Alexander Donald (7 February 1788)