Nay, a tumblelog.

[Garfield] refused to seek an appointment or promotion of any kind. ‘I suppose I am morbidly sensitive about any reference to my own achievements,’ he admitted. ‘I so much despise a man who blows his own horn, that I go to the other extreme.’”

“He had sternly instructed his backers that ‘first, I should make no pledge to any man or any measures; second, I should not work for my own nomination.’”

“After a landslide victory [for election to the U.S. Senate], his campaign’s expenses amounted to less than $150