“Je vois plus que jamais qu’il ne faut juger de rien sur sa grandeur apparente. O Dieu! qui avez donné une intelligence à des substances qui paraissent si méprisables, l’infiniment petit vous coûte autant que l’infiniment grand.” (I see more than ever that one should judge nothing by its apparent size. O God! who has given intelligence to such contemptible-seeming beings, the infinitely small costs you as little as the infinitely large.)

