19 Quotes by Hernando Cortes

As to the other remarkable things that the emperor had in his city for his amusement, I can only say that they were numerous and of various kinds.

All these towers are the burial places of the nobles, and every chapel in them is dedicated to a particular idol, to which they pay their devotions.

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.

What men in all the world have shown such daring?

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...

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.

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...