• Age appears to be best in four things; old wood best to burn, old wine to drink, old friends to trust, and old authors to read.

    Francis Bacon: Age appears to be best in four things; old wood best to burn, old wine to drink, old friends to trust, and old authors to read.
    Francis Bacon, William Rawley (1859). “The Works of Francis Bacon: Literary and professional works”, p.139