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

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

They no longer had nor could find any arrows, javelins or stones with which to attack us.

- Hernando Cortes

He travels safest in the dark night who travels lightest.

- 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

Furthermore, they had calculated that if 25,000 of them died for every one of us, they would finish with us first, for they were many and we were but…

- Hernando Cortes

What men in all the world have shown such daring?

- Hernando Cortes