"Sentimentalists are they ..." Quote of George Meredith

George Meredith (1828-1909), British author. Sir Austin Feverel, quoting the "Pilgrim's Scrip," in "Of the Spring Primrose and the Autumnal," ch. 24, The Ordeal of Richard Feverel (1859). speaking of sentimentalism, Sir Austin continued, "It is a happy pastime and an important science to the timid, the idle, and the heartless; but a damning one to them who have anything to forfeit." James Joyce, for whom Meredith was an early influence, quoted this aphorism in Ulysses ch. 9 (1922).