“The paradise of the rich is made out of the hell of the poor.”

“An intelligent hell would be better than a stupid paradise.”

“There is M. Geborand purchasing paradise for a sou.”

“See Monsieur Geborand, buying a pennyworth of paradise.”

“With a remainder of that brotherly compassion which is never totally absent from the heart of a drinker, Phoebus rolled Jehan with his foot onto one of those poor man's pillows which Providence provides on all the street corners of Paris and which the rich disdainfully refer to as heaps of garbage.”

“To sacrifice the world to paradise is to let slip the prey for the shadow.”

“Protect the workers, encourage the rich.”