A man cannot be comfortable without his own approval.

A man cannot be made comfortable without his own approval.

We can secure other people's approval, if we do right and try hard; but our own is worth a hundred of it, and no way has been found out of securing that

A man cannot be uncomfortable without his own approval

It may be called the master passion, the hunger for self-approval

Biographies are but the clothes and buttons of the man. The biography of the man himself cannot be written.