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.

We Spaniards know a sickness of the heart that only gold can cure.

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

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 prosperity, they have their idols, which they honor and serve.

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.

He travels safest in the dark night who travels lightest.

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.