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.

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.

He travels safest in the dark night who travels lightest.

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 Spaniards had done to each other for a long time past.

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 within its precincts, surrounded by a lofty wall, there is room enough for a town of five hundred families.

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?