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Seek not after riches nor the vain things of this world

In Alma 39:14, he writes to his son Corianton, using some non-Biblical language: “Seek not after riches nor the vain things of this world; for behold, you cannot carry them with you.”

Samuel Fothergill (1715–1772) was a Quaker minister. In a posthumous publication, 1803, “Advice to a Young Couple,” he writes (emphasis added):

I beseech you, my beloved friends, let your eye be unto godliness; and though it falls not to the godly to be always blessed with the affluence of worldly riches, yet you will assuredly find unspeakable consolation resulting from the divine favour and goodness towards you, which will abundantly counterbalance every worldly consideration. Be not of this world; but let your views be directed towards a better country, even a pure undefiled holy habitation; a house not made with hands, eternal in the heavens. Seek not after riches; suffer not your attention to be diverted from the pursuit of virtue, nor be desirous after the vain, foolish, transitory amusements of a degenerate age; for all these things will terminate in sorrow and distress of mind, and riches make themselves wings and flee away; but godliness is profitable in all things:

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