So loud was the wailing of the women and children that there was not one man among us whose heart did not bleed at the sound.

- Hernando Cortes

Thus they have an idol that they petition for victory in war; another for success in their labors; and so for everything in which they seek or desire…

- Hernando Cortes

He travels safest in the dark night who travels lightest.

- Hernando Cortes

Chocolate is the divine drink which builds up resistance and fights fatigue. A cup of this precious drink permits a man to walk for a whole day witho…

- Hernando Cortes

I and my companions suffer from a disease of the heart which can be cured only with gold.

- Hernando Cortes

For I assure Your Majesty that if God had not mysteriously assisted us and the victory had gone to Narváez, it would have been the greatest harm that…

- Hernando Cortes

The meals were served in a large hall, in which Moctezuma was accustomed to eat, and the dishes quite filled the room, which was covered with mats an…

- Hernando Cortes

The priests are debarred from female society, nor is any woman permitted to enter the religious houses.

- Hernando Cortes

There are fully forty towers, which are lofty and well built, the largest of which has fifty steps leading to its main body, and is higher than the t…

- Hernando Cortes