Maxim 37

  Musk is known by its perfume and not by what the druggist says. A

scholar is silent like the perfumer's casket but displays

accomplishments, whilst an ignoramus is loud-voiced and

intrinsically empty like a war-drum.

        A learned man among blockheads

        (So says the parable of our friends)

        Is like a sweetheart among the blind

        Or a Quran among unbelievers.