Sir Robert Hart

That's the big display with small letters, except for the name which caught my eyes when I passed the library foyer. 

“Nothing but hard, hard study will conquer the Chinese language, literature and its difficulties; but I am determined to become its master,” Hart wrote in his journal. 


I think this could be the slogan for our learners of Chinese ;-)

Here are two links (Telegraph, BBC) which will give you more information about this legendary man to the history of China's late Qing Dynasty.