Moral: Don't read the moral!

There were never any stories whose moral read: You, be happy! Screw the rest of the world!

However, it is fair, because this usage of the word 'screw' would never get past the censors and into the comic book.

Damn those stories told when one is young! For, that is a time when the mind is most malleable and susceptible to suggestion. Teaching it, then, the vices of nobility, integrity and selflessness is probably the surest way to make the hardened, adult version a complete misfit in the hardened, real world.

Take me to a time when there were no morals.
Take me to a place where there is no saint.
It takes a lot of beating when the mind is hardened.
It doesn't make a difference to put a coat of paint.

The tools of metal-smiths once had a conversation.
One worked with iron and the other dealt with gold.

Said the gold to the iron, "Why make so much noise?"
"My own kind, do I beat, and not some fancy toys."

To change a solid state is the toughest proposition.
To change the time gone by, impossible, I'm told.