M. de Tocqueville—a small and delicate-looking young man and a most engaging person. Full of intelligence and knowledge, free from boasting and self-sufficiency—of gentle manners, and handsome countenance. In conversing he displays a candid and unprejudiced mind—about thirty-two years of age, of a noble race in Normandy, and unmarried.

What It Means

This is a placeholder explanation generated by the low-overhead model. It interprets "M. de Tocqueville—a small and delicate-looking young man and a most engaging person. Full of intelligence and knowledge, free from boasting and self-sufficiency—of gentle manners, and handsome countenance. In conversing he displays a candid and unprejudiced mind—about thirty-two years of age, of a noble race in Normandy, and unmarried." in the context of "Harriet Grote, journal entry (1835), quoted in Lady Elizabeth Rigby Eastlake, Mrs. Grote: A Sketch (1880), pp. 114-115" to mean that wisdom is timeless.