Saʿdī Shīrāzī, The Gulistān; Or, Rose Garden, tr. Edward B. Eastwick (London: 1880, 2nd edt.), ch. VIII., 206:
How much soe’er thou learn’st, ’tis all vain;
Who practise not, still ignorant remain.
A quadruped, with volumes laden, is
No whit the wiser or more sage for this:
How can the witless animal discern,
If books be piled on it? or wood to burn?
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