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

Jealousy...

"I hear another speak thy name

I tremble to the bone"

Pet MS A31 p56

Austerity?

"To live by one man's will is the cause of all mens misery"

Pet MS A18 p248r
(discovered 10 days ago in the archive)

Love...

"Love speeds on wings of extacy"

Pet MS A48 p11

Winter sunset...

"Like golden groves in a golden sky"

Pet MS A59 p75

Providence...

"... god never sends a chicken into the world but he finds it a crumb"

Pet MS A46 p56-7
(From the largely unknown Clare story "The Fortune Teller")