کتاب Leviathan

Much memory, or memory of many things, is called Experience.

He that is to govern a whole Nation, must read in himselfe, not this, or that particular man; but Man-kind;

Wisedome is acquired, not by reading of Books, but of Men.

So when a man compoundeth the image of his own person, with the image of the actions of an other man; as when a man imagins himselfe a Hercules, or an Alexander, (which happeneth often to them that are much taken with reading of Romants) it is a compound imagination, and properly but a Fiction of the mind.