For my reference: a quote

[a_c_fiorucci]

... Nay, if you come to that, Sir, have not the wisest of men in all ages, not excepting Solomon himself,-have they not had their Hobby-Horses;-their running horses,-their coins and their cockle-shells, their drums and their trumpets, their fiddles, their pallets,-their maggots and their butterflies?-and so long as a man rides his Hobby-Horse peaceably and quietly along the King's highway, and neither compels you or me to get up behind him,-pray, Sir, what have either you or I to do with it?

Chapter 1.VIII.

-De gustibus non est disputandum;-that is, there is no disputing against Hobby-Horses; ...

The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman, by Laurence Sterne (~1759)