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.

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.

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

He travels safest in the dark night who travels lightest.

What men in all the world have shown such daring?

I and my companions suffer from a disease of the heart which can be cured only with gold.

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