Carried off?
I've seen a big fortune behave like an ash-barrel in a cyclone--there wasn't even a dust-heap left to tell where it stood! I've seen it, time and again.
My Lord! when I think o' such things comin' to ME! It don't seem like I deserved it--no man ever tried harder to raise his boys right than I have.

I planned and planned and planned how to bring 'em up to be guards to drive the wolves off, and how to be builders to build, and build bigger.

I tell you this business life is no fool's job nowadays--a man's got to have eyes in the back of his head.

You hear talk, sometimes, 'd make you think the millennium had come--but right the next breath you'll hear somebody hollerin' about 'the great unrest.' You BET there's a 'great unrest'! There ain't any man alive smart enough to see what it's goin' to do to us in the end, nor what day it's got set to bust loose, but it's frothin' and bubblin' in the boiler.

This country's been fillin' up with it from all over the world for a good many years, and the old camp-meetin' days are dead and done with.