horses: dangerous on both ends and crafty in the middle
Jealousy is a strange transformer of characters.
A man with so large a brain must have something in it.
Of all ghosts the ghosts of our old loves are the worst.
Only that I insist upon your dining with us. It will be ready in half an hour. I have oysters and a brace of grouse, with something a little choice in white wines. Watson, you have never yet recognized my merits as a housekeeper. ~ Sherlock Holmes
If I had never touched Holmes, who has tended to obscure my higher work, my position in literature would at the present moment be a more commanding one.