horses: dangerous on both ends and crafty in the middle
His sanguine spirit turns every firefly into a star.
It's a wicked world, and when a clever man turns his brain to crime it is the worst of all.
The best way of successfully acting a part is to be it.
The stage lost a fine actor, even as science lost an acute reasoner, when [Holmes] became a specialist in crime.
The Adventure of the Noble Bachelor