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.
Francis Bacon
Friendship
A quote by Francis Bacon
From the source
Apothegms. No. 97.
Recorded in John Bartlett’s Familiar Quotations, ninth edition, 1905 printing.