"My louing fellowes and déere friendes, it is certayne that euery valiant manne of stoute courage, doth procure by dée…"

"We ought (louing fellowes) to leaue off small things, when great matters doe offer themselues. And euen as my trust i…"

"Héere déere friends do I lay before you great gaynes, but wrapped in greate trauell, yet Vertue is an enimie to idlen…"

"He was avaricious, yet liberal; bold to desperation, yet cautious and calculating in his plans; magnanimous, yet very…"

"He was a knight-errant, in the literal sense of the word. Of all the band of adventurous cavaliers whom Spain, in the…"

"Cortés was not a vulgar conqueror. He did not conquer from the mere ambition of conquest. If he destroyed the ancient…"

"The subject of Cortés' religious beliefs baffles all but the fortunately simple who, like the first historian of the …"

"To boast of the help you gave a brother in need is to cancel the good of your deed."

""Be glad," she said, "God brought you to fifty years in your world"— but didn't know there's no division between, as …"

"The truth hurts like a thorn at first; but in the end it blossoms like a rose."