The Principles of Psychology, Vol. 1, ch. 4 "Habit" (1890) - James, William | WIST Quotations
There is no more contemptible type of human character that that of the nerveless sentimentalist and dreamer, who spends his life in a weltering sea of sensibility and emotion, but who never does a manly concrete deed. This chapter originally published in Popular Science Monthly (Feb 1887).