You're too finicking and high-strung and fanciful for a prosaic world.

You think yourself the laughing philosopher with an infinite appreciation of everything, and yet you have not the humour to stand aside and laugh at yourself." "I am a coward, as I have told you," said the other dourly.
"No, you are not.

But you can't bring yourself down to the world of compromises, which is the world of action.

You have lost the practical touch.

You muddled your fight with Stocks because you couldn't get out of touch with your own little world in practice, however you might manage it in theory.