“I shall pass through this world but once. Any good therefore that I can do or any kindness that I can show to any human being, let me do it now.”
As commonly credited to Mahatma Gandhi, Stephen Grellet and William Penn
- Credited to
- Mahatma Gandhi, Stephen Grellet and William Penn
- Actually said by
- Unknown
- Earliest known
- 1868
Findings
Attributed to many people. The quotation appeared in a Kansas newspaper in October 1868, where its creator was described only as an anonymous “wise man.”