"They have no iron or steel weapons, nor are they capable of using them."

"Riches don't make a man rich, they only make him busier."

"It was the Lord who put into my mind (I could feel His hand upon me) the fact that it would be possible to sail from here to the Indies."

"I am the most unfortunate man in the world, and I am in such a state that I do not know what to do."

"I have seen so many strange things that I do not know what to say."