Quotes from Hernando Cortes

He travels safest in the dark night who travels lightest.

It was so wonderful that I do not know how to describe this first glimpse of things never heard of, seen or dreamed of before.

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

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 few.

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 without food.

What men in all the world have shown such daring?

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.