Legacy
Long after his death, his memory lives in English literary life where his quotes can often be heard and was to live on among homemakers in the United States, owing to his rhyming recipe for salad dressing.
One quote of Smith's can be viewed on the wall of the main hallway in the Dallas Museum of Art in Dallas, Texas in the United States. The quote refers to Smith's love for tea and complements the museum's tea-set display.
"The High Priestess," a pseudonym used on http://www.tilneysandtrapdoors.com/cult/smith.html, writes an essay with cited opinions that Mr. Henry Tilney, the hero of Jane Austen's Northanger Abbey was possibly based on Sydney Smith.
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“What is popularly called fame is nothing but an empty name and a legacy from paganism.”
—Desiderius Erasmus (c. 1466–1536)