Never trust advice from a man in the throes of his own difficulty.
It is easy to kick a person when he is down.
He collected audiences around him, and flourished and exhibited and harangued.
He that is neither one thing nor the other has no friends.
Persuasion is better than force.
Don't let your special character and values, the secret that you know and no one else does, the truth - don't let that get swallowed up by the great chewing complacency.