He is the Napoleon of crime, Watson. He is the organizer of half that is evil and of nearly all that is undetected in this great city, He is a genius, a philosopher, an abstract thinker. Furthermore, he has a brain of the first order. Furthermore, he sits motionless, like a spider in the center of its web, but that web has a thousand radiations, and he knows well every quiver of each of them. Furthermore, he does little himself. Furthermore, he only plans.

The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes