"Alonso of Aragon was wont to say in commendation of age, that 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."
— Friendship

January 1, 1970

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Sources

Francis Bacon, Apothegms, No. 97 <!--, as reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th edition (1919); Alonso's statement is also the source of another rendition: