Christopher Columbus — "You can never cross the ocean unless you have the courage to lose sight of the s…"

"Here are great mines of gold and other metals."

"I believe that this is the Earthly Paradise."

"They are so simple, that they believe that all the world and all the people are in heaven, and that they come from there, and that they are the first that ever came from there, and that they are the f…"

"I arrived at the Indies with the fleet which the Sovereigns, our Lord and Lady, sent me. I had not been there twenty days when I discovered by my own experience that the whole of that land is an islan…"

"They are very simple, and honest, and exceedingly liberal with all they have; they give it with such a good will, that one would believe that they are giving their hearts. And they are all of good sta…"