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.

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.

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.

He travels safest in the dark night who travels lightest.