The Pen and the Sword
Dr. Draper, in his “Intellectual Development of Europe,” says,—
“Within twenty-five years after the death of Mohammed, under Ali, the fourth Khalif, the patronage of learning had become a settled principle of the Mohammedan system. Some of the maxims current show how much literature was esteemed.”
“The ink of the doctor is equally valuable with the blood of the martyr.
“Paradise is as much for him who has rightly used the pen, as for him who has fallen by the sword.”