“The Great Architect of the universe built it of good stuff.”
Source: Journey to the Center of the Earth (1864), Ch. XXXI in the French text, Tr. William Butcher (1992)
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Le grand architecte de l'univers l'a construite on bons matériaux.
Journey to the Center of the Earth (1864)
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“It's the most powerful stuff in the universe.”
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Context: "Iron can destroy anything: families, fortunes, governments, whole countries. It's the most powerful stuff in the universe."
"Oh?" Orry's skeptical glance fell down on the Plain below. "You really think it's more powerful than a big army?"
"Without weapons - without this - there are no big armies."

“It is all just the universe doing its stuff, and we are the stuff it is being done to.”
Source: Levels of Life

As quoted in Obituary by RayClaire at Glint (16 November 2011) http://r-c-d.diaryland.com/111117_11.html
“I would have remembered the good stuff.
Nobody ever remembers the good stuff.”
Source: How to Kill a Rock Star