Anticipation...

"Anticipation is the sweetest of earthly pleasures     it is smiling hope stand on tiptoes to look for pleasure"

Pet MS B3 p14

Argument...

"Anger in argument makes a wise man foolish"

Pet MS A42 p143

Starlings...

Not really an aphorism, but...

"Fanning the chill air with a million wings"

Pet MS A18 p242

Politics (again)...

[Image: "A free born Englishman! the admiration of the world!!! and the envy of surrounding nations!!!!!" by George Cruikshank (1819)]

"Party is the madness of many for the gain of a few"

Pet MS A18 p240r