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

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

What men in all the world have shown such daring?

- Hernando Cortes

Among these temples there is one which far surpasses all the rest, whose grandeur of architectural details no human tongue is able to describe; for w…

- Hernando Cortes

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

- 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

He travels safest in the dark night who travels lightest.

- 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

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

- Hernando Cortes