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 f… - Francis Bacon

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

Old wood best to burn, old wine to drink, old friends to trust, and old authors to read.

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.

Sacred and inspired divinity, the sabaoth and port of all men's labours and peregrinations.

This public envy, seemeth to beat chiefly upon principal officers or ministers, rather than upon kings, and estates themselves. But this is a sure rule, that if the envy upon the minister be great, when the cause of it in him is small; or if the envy be general, in a manner upon all the ministers of an estate; then the envy (though hidden) is truly upon the state itself.

The human understanding is moved by those things most which strike and enter the mind simultaneously and suddenly, and so fill the imagination; and then it feigns and supposes all other things to be somehow, though it cannot see how, similar to those few things by which it is surrounded.