We went there to serve God, and also to get rich.

- Bernal Diaz Del Castillo

And when we saw all those cities and villages built in the water, and other great towns on dry land, and that straight and level causeway leading to …

- Bernal Diaz Del Castillo

As for us, we were scarcely four hundred strong, and we well remembered the word and warning...we had received to beware of entering the city of Mexi…

- Bernal Diaz Del Castillo

We dared not charge them except all together... for they were so numerous that they could have blinded us with clods of earth, if God, of His great m…

- Bernal Diaz Del Castillo

Fruit of all the kinds that the country produced were laid before him; he ate very little, but from time to time a liquor prepared from cocoa, and of…

- Bernal Diaz Del Castillo

We came to serve God and to get rich, as all men wish to do.

- Bernal Diaz Del Castillo