Words of Stephen Grellet
I expect to pass through this world but once. Any good, therefore, that I can do, or any kindness I can show to any fellow creature, let me do it now. Let me not defer or neglect it, for I shall not pass this way again.
by Stephen Grellet
Stephen Grellet was born as Étienne de Grellet du Mabillier on 2 November 1773 in Dinsac, Limousin, France. He was the son of a counselor to King Henry XVI. At 17 years of age, he entered the King’s bodyguard. During the French Revolution of 1792, he was sentenced to be executed, but fled France, eventually making his way to the United States of America, where he arrived in 1795. In 1796, he joined the Religious Society of Friends, and become a Quaker minister and missionary. Stephen Grellet passed on at 82 years of age on 16 November 1855 in Burlington, New Jersey, United States of America.
I expect to pass through this world but once. Any good, therefore, that I can do, or any kindness I can show to any fellow creature, let me do it now. Let me not defer or neglect it, for I shall not pass this way again.
by Stephen Grellet
Stephen Grellet was born as Étienne de Grellet du Mabillier on 2 November 1773 in Dinsac, Limousin, France. He was the son of a counselor to King Henry XVI. At 17 years of age, he entered the King’s bodyguard. During the French Revolution of 1792, he was sentenced to be executed, but fled France, eventually making his way to the United States of America, where he arrived in 1795. In 1796, he joined the Religious Society of Friends, and become a Quaker minister and missionary. Stephen Grellet passed on at 82 years of age on 16 November 1855 in Burlington, New Jersey, United States of America.