 " The courthouse interior is a rush of color — pearl gray and green @-@ veined marbles , golden light fixtures , yellow , green , and blue paint . Standing in the great central court , one looks up the three stories of the magnificent rotunda to a dome whose outer rim is painted with the signs of the zodiac and whose center is an eye of stained glass worthy of Tiffany . One feels — as one does in the rotunda at the heart of the Capitol in Washington — the dignity of government and the permanence of law . " 
