Age appears best in four things: old wood to burn, old wine to drink, old friends to trust, and old authors to read.
Source: In Webster's Electronic Quotebase, ed. Keith Mohler, 1994.
-- Francis Bacon, (Jan 22 1561-1626), English philosopher, statesman, essayist; He was an early advocate of inductive learning from intensive observation; wrote Novum Organum, 1620.