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.

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

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.

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.

What men in all the world have shown such daring?