The inscription below the statue says "Lord, what fooles these mortals be!". The quote is from Act 3, Scene 2 of William Shakespeare's play A Midsummers Night Dream.
The quote was chosen by chief architect Paul Cret and consulting architect Alexander Trowbridge from three Puck quotations supplied by Henry Folger.

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