_Fortitude_ is shown fully armed--the mace in her right hand and the buckler on her arm, and protected by cuirass, casque, and greaves. She is thus represented as ready for any emergency--living in continual expectation of danger, and constantly prepared to meet it. _Justice_ holds the globe in her right hand, signifying the extent of her sway. She holds a naked sword upright, signifying the terribleness of her punishment. _Patriotism_ is feeding an eagle, the emblem of America, from a golden bowl--an action which symbolizes the high nourishment with which the Virtue sustains the spirit of the country. _Courage_ is represented as armed hastily with the buckler, casque, and sword--not, like _Fortitude_, continually on guard, but snatching up her arms in the presence of an unforeseen danger. _Temperance_--figured as the classic rather than the modern virtue--holds an antique pitcher in her right hand, from which a stream of some liquor, whether wine or water, descends into the bowl she holds in her left. Her buoyancy and air of health betoken her moderation of living. _Prudence_ looks in a hand-glass to discover any danger which may assail her from behind. In her right hand she holds a serpent--the emblem of wisdom. _Industry_ draws the flax from a distaff, the end of which is stuck in her girdle, and twists it into thread, to be wound upon the spindle which hangs at her side. _Concord_--the Roman goddess Concordia--illustrates the blessings of peace. In her right hand she bears an olive-branch, and in her left she carries a cornucopia filled with wheat. =The Inscriptions along the Walls.=--Before taking leave of the corridors of the Entrance Hall, one more feature of the decoration requires notice, namely the twenty-nine inscriptions occupying the gilt tablets below the stucco frames which surround the circular windows and the wall-paintings of Mr. Benson and Mr. Reid. They are as follows:-- Too low they build who build beneath the stars. _Young._ There is but one temple in the Universe and that is the Body of Man. _Novalis._ Beholding the bright countenance of Truth in the quiet and still air of delightful studies. _Milton._ The true university of these days is a collection of books. _Carlyle._ Nature is the art of God. _Sir Thomas Browne._ There is no work of genius which has not been the delight of mankind. _Lowell._ It is the mind that makes the man, and our vigor is in our immortal soul. _Ovid._ They are never alone that are accompanied by noble thoughts. _Sidney._ Man is one world and has Another to attend him. _Herbert._ Tongues in trees, books in the running brooks, Sermons in stones, and good in everything. _As You Like It._ The true Shekinah is man. _Chrysostom._